Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269600AbUINTnO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:43:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269439AbUINTm1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:42:27 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:41384 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269367AbUINTkd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:40:33 -0400 Message-ID: <41474926.8050808@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:40:22 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, Tigran Aivazian Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices References: <41473972.8010104@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <41473972.8010104@debian.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 21 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > udev + modular microcode: > $ modprobe -r microcode > $ modprobe microcode ; microcode_ctl -u > => microcode_ctl does NOT find the device The loading of the module triggers udev to run. There is no guarantee that udev runs before microcode_ctl. One workaround would be to have microcode_ctl use dnotify to get woken up whenever /dev changes. There may be other ways to do this as well, but Greg would be the guy for that. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/