[Slackbuilds-users] bug in irqbalance

[Robby Workman]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:37:35 +0800
Grissiom <chaos.proton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:21, Patrick J. Volkerding
> <volkerdi at slackware.com>wrote:
> 
> > Grissiom wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm, so many replies when I am sleeping ;) Thanks for caring this
> >> issue.
> >>
> >
> > No problem.  :-)
> >
> >  Yes, just as Scott
> >> said, there is no "make install" in the tiny official(upstream)
> >> Makefile. So
> >> Slackbuild install it manually. The Makefile only builds the
> >> binary.
> >>
> >
> > In those cases, looking for an ad-hoc standard is preferable to
> > deciding where to place it based on the FHS.  So, if everyone else
> > is putting it in /usr/bin/, we would probably be wise to do so as
> > well.  It might be a good idea to look at some other distributions
> > packages to see if there's an agreement on this point.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > Thanks for your kind reply. From a quick Google search I found two
> > useful
> link:
> 
> OpenSuSE 11.0 rpm for i586:(see the Files section)
> http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/11.0/i586/irqbalance-0.55-88.1.i586.html
> 
> And some other rpms for many other distro:
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=irqbalance
> 
> which seems all of those place the binary file in /usr/sbin. In my
> view, what the irqbanlance eventually do is to
> modify /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity file if you run a SMP system. And all
> the smp_affinity file is own by root and have 600 mode. So only if
> run as root, this programe could take into effect.
> 


Okay, thanks to everyone who participated in this one :-)
I've just pushed a fixed irqbalance into READY, so it will
go out with the next public update.

Thanks again!

-RW