On Jun 17, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>> Subject: Re: AS1200 stray IRQ messages
>>
>> May be because the associated driver didn't claim the interrupt (e.g. 
>> the
>> kernel gets an IRQ 7 and the lpt driver says "it's not for me, I'm not
>> waiting for an interrupt)
>
> Which seems to show that there's a design flaw or bug of some sort in
> the lpt driver.
>
> IIUC the lpt hardware can and will generate asynchronous interrupts and
> the driver should be prepared to handle them.

   Howdy Greg.  Why would the LPT hardware generate asynchronous 
interrupts?  Things like the "paper out" signal?

        -Dave

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