Re: ide_set_handler: timer already active

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:37:26 -0500


Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Do you share the interrupts of your IDE interfaces with other devices? I do.

Yes, but only with other PCI devices (all level-triggered).
Right now I have two IDE interfaces (RAID0) and an EEpro100 sharing IRQ
11.

> > The message is is only there "temporarily" anyway,
> > just to check for bugs seen (but not understood) on other architecture(s).
>
> I see the message several times a day. Each of these would have been a full
> crash in the days before I replaced the call to add_timer() by mod_timer().
>
> Strange... Where is the bug????

Must be somewhere in the M68k interrupt layer.
The ia32 interrupt stuff was also fairly buggy last fall.

Cheers

-- 
mlord@pobox.com

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/