Comment # 17 on bug 1205308 from Chang Seok Bae

Hello,

First, I have to clarify that thermald has nothing to do with this event
handling.

I gave a pull request to support Netlink events from the kernel: 
https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/pull/206

Then, this commit was followed to switch errors to warnings:
https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/commit/febe697ac3216b14397a60937dd403ff88248d97

But this line change made confusion to folks:

rc = genl_connect(sock);
if (rc) {
-    log(TO_ALL, LOG_ERR, "thermal: socket bind failed.\n");
+    log(TO_ALL, LOG_INFO, "thermal: socket bind failed, thermald may not be
running.\n");
    return TRUE;
}

This is not true. It has nothing to do with "thermald". The thermal events come
from the kernel with CONFIG_INTEL_HFI_THERMAL=y

Let me try to remove that confusing sentence.

Then, so far, the issue seems to be on systemd for the reason why it shutdown
irqbalance, right?  So I would concur that more information is needed as people
suggested.