Re: irqbalance update in etch?
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:12:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> + * Non maintainer upload.
> + * irqbalance would segfault on startup when /proc/interrupts contains
> + an interrupt with a number of 256 or larger, since internally it
> + stored data in a fixed-length array. Newer versions (say 0.55) have
> + replaced the data structure with a list so this is fixed there. For
> + now we just skip interrupts with such high numbers, since it's the
> + least invasive approach during the stable cycle.
> +
The patch looks fine to me. I mean, the machines with higher interrupts
were crashing anyway, so simply chugging along ignoring them seems like
an improvement.
regards, Kyle
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