Option error

[Dariusz Dwornikowski]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0200, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
>   
>> pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.
>> 0.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
>>     
>
> The above is indeed the source of your problems. The root evil is
> that the PC architecture has way too few IRQ lines (signals from IO
> devices to the CPU that something has happened in the IO device, like
> that data has come in or that it's now ok to send more data) and
> computer makers don't care about spending extra $ to improve only
> slightly on the situation by designing mainboards more carefully.
>
> Software has to deal with the problem (checking which of several IO
> devices actually yanked the IRQ line) but not all of the Linux PCMCIA
> card drivers in 2.6 do this yet.
>   

yes, i am using yenta driver. is there a even dirty workaround for this
problem ? maybe is there a way to check which interrupts cause the
collision ?  i could then not use this hardware during using option
card. It is crucial to make it work for me as I administrate
high-availibility servers.


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