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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Conflicting interrupts!
Keywords: interrupt,gendev
Message-ID: <1990Jul09.230948.6385@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Jul 90 23:09:48 GMT
References: <520@al.ele.tue.nl>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <520@al.ele.tue.nl> blitter@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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