diff -up irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.1.orig irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.1

--- irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.1.orig	2014-08-19 14:42:45.760710296 +0200

+++ irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.1	2014-08-19 14:43:00.246715877 +0200

@@ -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-1.0.7/irqbalance.c.orig irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.c

--- irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.c.orig	2013-10-10 17:14:07.000000000 +0200

+++ irqbalance-1.0.7/irqbalance.c	2014-08-19 14:43:00.247715877 +0200

@@ -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 deepest_cache = ULONG_MAX;

 unsigned long long cycle_count = 0;