+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #329911 +++ 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. -- Additional comment from jcm on 2007-10-12 21:39 EST -- 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.
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