On Gwe, 2006-05-12 at 01:10 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > documented) to drop any pending interrupt once it is masked, thus you > > would take the interrupt once (or maybe 2 or 3 times in weird obscure > > corner cases on a pentium II SMP box) and then no more. > > So, they will drop interrupt after several unhandled IRQs at most even > if the driver doesn't read TF status register to clear it, right? Yes. The IRQ is no longer asserted at source so will not be re-triggered - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html