On Friday 30 March 2007 03:36, Zach wrote:

> kern.log:Mar 29 23:44:36 netrek kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

A spurious interrupt isn't necessarily a "spurious kernel error",
it means that the kernel went to service an interrupt and didn't
find any sources.  In PIC mode, these are registered on IRQ7.
Could be a race condition in a device driver
that is exposed from multiple drivers sharing the same IRQ.

-Len


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