Re: udev is too slow creating devices

[Chris Friesen]

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
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