Re: udev is too slow creating devices

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:40:22PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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.

Ick, no.  Use the /etc/dev.d/ notify method I described.  That is what
it is there for.

thanks,

greg k-h
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