Re: Argh, Stray interrupts 2006

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-06-02 00:24, Danial Thom wrote:
> --- Simon 'corecode' Schubert
> <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 01.06.2006, at 20:42, Danial Thom wrote:
> > > OK, it seems that enabling the printer got
> > rid of
> > > the messages. We usually disable the printer
> > port
> > > and remove the printer device and it seems
> > that
> > > DFLY doesn't like that too much.
> >
> > Now that you're talking about it:  I also
> > experienced some of those 
> > strange problems, and on my box i still get
> > stray ints (11 I think) 
> > when switching virtual consoles or pressing any
> > *lock key (!?).
> >
> > It basically means:  something fishy is
> > happening, DragonFly/FreeBSD 
> > did notice that, continued working, but told
> > you.  Maybe we can add a 
> > sysctl which rate-limits those messages to a
> > reasonable amount?
> >
> > cheers
> >    simon
>
> FreeBSD (4.9+ at least) quashes them after the
> first dozen or so. But I still don't get why ints
> are getting generated when no device on that irq
> has been enabled.

Matt explained it all in an earlier post:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-06/msg00011.html

Erik Wikström
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