On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My PCI/MP configuration is such that one of the ports of dual-port
> eepro100 card and the sound card would share irq 16. So I compiled
> soundmodule (es11371) as a module in order to avoid shared irq processing
> and slow down eepro100. However, I still get irq 16 generated somehow even
> though 0 packets were ever received/transmitted on the relevant interface.
>
> Any ideas? I definitely didn't load es1371 module...
>
it is amazing that nobody in the whole world knew the answer to this, not
even the author(s) of eepro100 driver. The reason for those interrupts is
that the driver does some testing of the board which generates some
activity but doesn't show up as "packets" in stats printed by ifconfig(8)
Regards,
Tigran
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