Well, for the serial ports (yawn! have we got to say this again),
the interrupt isn't reserved unless the serial port is in use.
The driver won't grab irq 4 or 3 (or whatever) until it needs it.
That's a design feature, not a bug.
By default, the parallel printer driver doesn't use interrupts,
so it won't grab irq 7 or 5 (or whatever) unless you
a) load the lp driver - if its a module
and
b) tell it to use interrupts
That's another design feature, not a bug.
-Andy
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