Conflicting interrupts!

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Tue Jul 10 09:09:48 AEST 1990


In article <520 at al.ele.tue.nl> blitter at ele.tue.nl (Paul) writes:
>interrupt 7 for the tape. This means that I can use the tape now but
>not the printer. Apparently interrupt 5 is used by gendev, what is
>this device and can I remove that line from the configuration file
>for gendev.

>From what I can see, gendev is a "pseudo" device that eats up unused
iterrupt numbers.  I have deleted these things with no repercussions.

If you look in /etc/conf/kconfig.d/some_thing_or_other you will
find a shell script that creates the gendev entries, so I think it
is ok to do as you wish.

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