I have received the message 'kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7' in my messages log. Should I be concerned about this?
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This error message is meant to inform the user that interrupts are occuring in the system when they are not meant to be occurring. Common reasons for this happening include:
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misconfigured driver or peripheral hardware - Sometimes a device driver will be miswritten or a piece of peripheral hardware will be misconfigured in such a way that interrupt signal deliv...
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