Stray irq7's

[Ian Smith]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:

 > Douglas W. Goodall wrote:
 > > I looked closely at the source code i386/intr_machdep.c and I can see
 > > that the interrupt routine deals properly with the Default IR7. The
 > > only trouble is, the code considers the stray Ir7 a condition worth
 > > informing the user about and logging.
 > >
 > > IMHO, it would be better to just take care of it quietly. It isn't an
 > >  important event and isn't worthy of bothering the root user. I
 > > commented out the logging code and everything works fine.
 > >
 > Thank you so much for taking the time to look into the code and trying
 > to fix that. I really appreciate you explaining the cause of the problem
 > and how to fix it. If you don't mind, can you please share with us how
 > to fix it so that other people might benefit from your solution as well?

Yousef,

Since you've said that you have a DB25 printer port on your Tecra that
is not being properly detected on boot, and doesn't show up in dmesg, I
would consider commenting out irq 7 error logging to be just 'shooting
the messenger', ie masking the problem rather than fixing it.

Nothing further from me on this one ..

Cheers, Ian