Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel B. wrote:
> > > Is this something I need to do something about:
> > >   Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> > 
> > Just ignore it.  It basically means that you do not have anything
> > connected to the parallel port.
> 
> That obviously can't be right--I have a working printer attached to 
> the parallel port.

It isn't right.  What it means is that an interrupt was asserted, but by
the time the hardware got around to telling the CPU, it wasn't there any
more.  IRQ7 is the lowest priority interrupt, and that's where the service
routine ends up.

It's harmless.

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