Bug 329911

Summary: microcode_ctl instscript needs to move to be event driven instead of polling
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dave Jones <davej>
Component: microcode_ctlAssignee: Jon Masters <jcm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dave Jones 2007-10-12 19:10:23 UTC
We do this in /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl ..

        while [ ! -c $DEVICE ]; do
                lt=$[lt+1];
                [ $lt -gt 5 ] && break;
                sleep 1;
        done

which is pretty silly.  We're waiting for udev to create the /dev/ node.
We could just quit the script after doing the modprobe, and have a separate
script that udev runs upon creation of the device to do the actual microcode
loading.

The loop above polls for up to 5 seconds.  I picked this number because we
actually had reports from RHEL customers that for some reason it took udev up to
5 seconds to create the dev node.  Udev may have been sped up since rhel5, but
even if it hasn't moving all this to be event driven will speed up the boot
process anywhere between 1-5 seconds.

Comment 1 Jon Masters 2007-10-13 01:39:51 UTC
Thanks Dave. I'm getting a new rawhide box setup over the weekend and will then
fix this "bug"...it's certainly not the last time we need to move over to event
driven initscripts ;-)

Jon.


Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 14:04:15 UTC
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:19:06 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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