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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:13:38 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        chad@anasazi.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/2248: Mitsumi CD-ROM driver has
Message-ID:  <199612211813.TAA11726@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612211400.GAA10502@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Chad R. Larson" at "Dec 21, 96 06:00:02 am"

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As Chad R. Larson wrote:

>  Other tidbits:  Each completed read generates a "stray interrupt",
>  which tells me that the strategy of mcd_doread() repeatedly scheduling
>  itself wouldn't be necessary.  Let the interrupt cause data to be
>  collected.

Stray IRQs are nothing a driver would generate by this or that policy.
It's a plain hardware bug (often benign), telling you that there are
spikes on an interrupt line.  Since you know that the stray IRQs are
related to the Mitsumi card, you already know the culprit as well.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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