Hi This is a bug that occur from time to time on my (unsed) sdhci card drive this is with kernel 2.6.29.1 (not a regression, I had the same problem with older kernel) [ 2885.888003] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 2885.888014] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29.1 #1 [ 2885.888019] Call Trace: [ 2885.888023] [] __report_bad_irq+0x38/0x87 [ 2885.888045] [] note_interrupt+0x118/0x182 [ 2885.888053] [] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa1/0xc5 [ 2885.888062] [] do_IRQ+0x70/0xe7 [ 2885.888069] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa [ 2885.888073] [] ? notifier_call_chain +0x33/0x5b [ 2885.888136] [] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple +0x186/0x1f8 [processor] [ 2885.888159] [] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple +0x17c/0x1f8 [processor] [ 2885.888169] [] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x8c/0xc6 [ 2885.888176] [] ? cpu_idle+0x52/0x93 [ 2885.888184] [] ? rest_init+0x61/0x63 [ 2885.888189] handlers: [ 2885.888192] [] (sdhci_irq+0x0/0x49a [sdhci]) [ 2885.888208] Disabling IRQ #19 as you can see there is a lot of interrupts on mmc0 but seems strange because I don't use this drive at all cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 320163 361871 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 997 1017 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 9: 3427 205 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 920 876 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 43038 224 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 16: 34787 50 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, yenta 17: 742 735 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4, yenta, HDA Intel, HDA Intel 18: 2 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394, ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7 19: 5399854 147 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0 20: 12 12 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb5 22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb6 28: 57246 12 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 29: 26003 21615 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 30: 922 722 PCI-MSI-edge iwlagn NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 235843 241312 Local timer interrupts RES: 58369 76238 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 67 65 Function call interrupts TLB: 3679 4198 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0 MIS: 0 from dmesg [ 9.220049] ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC Controller disabling driver [ 9.220054] ricoh-mmc: Copyright(c) Philip Langdale [ 9.258786] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver [ 9.258788] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman [ 9.329406] ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC controller found at 0000:02:06.4 [1180:0843] (rev 10) [ 9.329424] ricoh-mmc: Controller is now disabled. [ 9.329463] sdhci-pci 0000:02:06.3: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 20) [ 9.329480] sdhci-pci 0000:02:06.3: PCI INT D -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 9.331556] Registered led device: mmc0:: [ 9.332608] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:02:06.3] using PIO dmesg attached tell me if you need other info thanks -- Cordiali Saluti Alessandro Bono