* Stefan Assmann <sassmann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Why can these IRQ lines be brought down by Boot Interrupts? Because > there's no handler installed on the primary IO-APIC IRQ line that can > take care of them and after too many unhandled IRQs the line will be > shut down by the kernel. The failure mode can be quite nasty: ranging from non-working USB (and other) devices to hard lockups due to screaming IRQs. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
