Sorry about reporting this error so late but the machine in question had gone some time without upgrades. The problem I'm seeing is that IRQs stop working for one of the IRQ slots on the machine. It's only that slot, not the entire IRQ, since the two slots (it's a small machine) both get routed to IRQ 10. I've included dmesg from 2.6.10-rc1 (which works) and 2.6.10-rc2 (which doesn't). I've also tried reverting the patches that modifies arch/i386/kernel/irq.c and arch/i386/pci/irq.c but it didn't solve the problem. So now I need some more input on which patches to try. Rgds Pierre