diff -up irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.1.orig irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.1

--- irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.1.orig	2014-02-10 15:46:52.175496460 +0100

+++ irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.1	2014-02-10 15:47:25.774548481 +0100

@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ irq is balanced, but the assigned object

 .P

 .I ignore

 irq affinity hint value is completely ignored

+.P

+The default value for hintpolicy is ignore

 .TP

 .B -p, --powerthresh=<threshold>

diff -up irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.c.orig irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.c

--- irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.c.orig	2014-02-10 15:46:38.794475738 +0100

+++ irqbalance-1.0.6/irqbalance.c	2014-02-10 15:47:25.774548481 +0100

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ int foreground_mode;

 int numa_avail;

 int need_rescan;

 unsigned int log_mask = TO_ALL;

-enum hp_e hint_policy = HINT_POLICY_SUBSET;

+enum hp_e hint_policy = HINT_POLICY_IGNORE;

 unsigned long power_thresh = ULONG_MAX;

 unsigned long long cycle_count = 0;

 char *pidfile = NULL;