Re: 2.6.8 error message - irq 7: nobody cared

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:57:51PM +0000, Ray Curd wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I recently upgraded to the 2.6.8 kernel and everything went fine but 
> then I started getting these intermitent error messages on the 
> console
> 
> irq 7: nobody cared!
> [__report_bad_irq+42/144] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0x90
> [note_interrupt+108/160] note_interrupt+0x6c/0xa0
> [do_IRQ+289/304] do_IRQ+0x121/0x130
> [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> [__do_softirq+48/128] __do_softirq+0x30/0x80
> [do_softirq+38/48] do_softirq+0x26/0x30
> [do_IRQ+253/304] do_IRQ+0xfd/0x130
> [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> [default_idle+35/48] default_idle+0x23/0x30
> [cpu_idle+44/64] cpu_idle+0x2c/0x40
> [start_kernel+410/480] start_kernel+0x19a/0x1e0
> [unknown_bootoption+0/352] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x160
> [__crc_get_wchan+3875811/6133658] (ide_intr+0x0/0x190 [ide_core])
> Disabling IRQ #7
> 
> Sometimes it was just the Disabling IRQ #7 on its own, and they 
> occured about every two minutes, They didn't happen every time one 
> day I ran without any at all. There was no other effects on my m/c as 
> far as I could tell and at the moment I have returned to 2.4.27 with 
> no sign of them at all.
> 
A start might be to cat < /proc/interupts, and see what IRQ7 is assigned
to.

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