Subject: Re: ex0 wedges after long uptime?
To: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/05/1999 11:48:11
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> 
> mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu said:
> >  when it fails, it logged several stray interrupts
> 
> I don't know too much about the hardware, but assuming there
> is a card interrupt not handled properly, you could
> print out the last value of "stat" in ex_intr() if the
> interrupt handler is left with the return value 0.
> That's what I'd do at least. (if the interrupt is not
> shared, otherwise it could get noisy)

 I'll give that a try next time I boot a new kernel.  I was also thinking
about trying to hack ex_init() to re-enable the interrupt to see if that
gets things working again.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA