Re: floppy irq unregisters itself?

Janos Farkas (chexum@bankinf.banki.hu)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:12:27 +0100 (MET)

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Is there a reason why the floppy driver unregisters it's irq handler when
> the motor goes off?

> This has the side-effect of irq 6 not showing up in /proc/interrupts, only
> when there is floppy activity.

Moreover, is there a reason to NOT include Paul Gortmaker's (AFAIR) patch,
which changed /proc/interrupts to show all interrupt counts, not just
those of the currently registered ones? I know, the information is itself
is available in /proc/stat, but that's not too readable..

Janos