On Fri 2007-11-30 13:13:44, Alan Cox wrote: > > Why does a single spurious interrupt cause it to be shut down? I can > > It doesn't. > > > see if the interrupt is stuck on and keeps interrupting constantly, but > > if it's just the occasional spurious interrupt, why not just ignore it > > and move on? > > The interrupt is usually level triggered so it continues to create > interrupts until you silence it. The thresholds are about 10,000 > interrupt events and on newer kernels we also reset the count if we don't > see any for a while. That works for most stuff except the thinkpad > bluetooth problem. Which is confirmed hw problem now, btw. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
