On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Alex Villac��s Lasso wrote:

> I checked the thread. As far as I can see, the problem described is 
> about the ethernet device causing spurious interrupts in the USB IRQ. 
> However,
> there are two things that are not explained from reading the thread:
> 
> * How can an Ethernet card in my home machine, without any cable 
> connected to it, make the system generate a spurious interrupt at IRQ 5,
> at the exact moment in which the memory stick is plugged?

It doesn't have to be the Ethernet card; it could be any device.  But 
you're right that it's unlikely this would happen just when you plug in 
the stick.

Another possibility is that the UHCI controller _is_ generating the 
interrupt but is failing to set the apropriate status bits to indicate 
that it is indeed the source.  This seems pretty unlikely too.

> * Why is the problem temporarily fixed when I rmmod ehci-hcd?

Beats me.  Maybe the EHCI controller is the other device responsible for 
creating the spurious interrupts?  Of course, that's what you originally 
guessed -- so perhaps you were right.

Your experiments with ACPI turned off should be informative.

Alan Stern



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