On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:35:07PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > Sorry about the changelog entry - that was just me creating an interrim > package on the machine with issues to see if it would work. The > information is in the bug report, but I'll recap. > > The current situation is that irqbalance misparses /proc/interrupts on > at least sparc. This misparse leads irqbalance to try to open > /proc/irq/0 (which does not exist) and then segv since it ignores the > opendir failure. The patch in the BTS only makes it notice the opendir > failure and continue on without that entry. I see no point in warning > about the opendir failure, since irqbalance can't, by definition, do > anything about IRQs the kernel hasn't set up /proc entries for.
In this case: ACK. Thanks for the clarification. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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