Re: PATCH: /proc/irq/ fix

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 18:12:10 EST


Hi!

> > Here is a patch to avoid multiple same entries in /proc/irq/ and shows
> > only the active interrupts. Although I'm not sure about the test
> > against no_irq_type, Ingo, do you want to show all possible interrupts
> > in /proc/irq/? Then the patch would be a bit smaller and only the
> > register_irq_proc() needs to removed from request_irq() (and one test
> > against no_irq_type is sufficient).
>
> i believe we want to show all possible interrupts. (not all IRQ vectors,
> but all IRQs which are registered by an IRQ controller) The possibility to
> set IRQ affinity should not depend on wether a particular module is loaded
> or not.

...and btw it is nice to see if some activity happened on some
"unused" irq line: (If you are changing this, making it output unused
but active interrupts might be nice, too...)

pavel@bug:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0: 2943640 XT-PIC timer
  1: 56843 XT-PIC keyboard
  2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
  4: 5 XT-PIC
  5: 4 XT-PIC pcnet_cs
  6: 3 XT-PIC
  7: 4 XT-PIC
 10: 3 XT-PIC
 11: 3149983 XT-PIC usb-uhci, ESS Maestro 2E
 12: 170 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
 14: 10766 XT-PIC ide0
 15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

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