- Drop the node creation/deletion change from previous release. It'll cause

grief with selinux, and was a hack to get around a udev shortcoming
    that should be fixed properly.

microcode_ctl.init

@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ ARGUMENTS=-Qu
 RETVAL=0
 PROGRAM=/sbin/microcode_ctl
 
+# Lets just be sure we have a device file...
+if [ ! -e $DEVICE ]; then 
+	echo $"$0: microcode device $DEVICE doesn't exist?"
+	exit 1
+elif [ ! -c $DEVICE ]; then
+	echo $"$0: $DEVICE not a character device?"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
 if [ ! -e /etc/firmware/microcode.dat ]; then 
 	echo $"$0: microcode datafile not present (/etc/firmware/microcode.dat)"
 	exit 1
@@ -41,10 +50,13 @@ function start ()
 	echo -n $"Applying Intel Microcode update: "
 
 	/sbin/modprobe microcode
-	if [ ! -d /dev/cpu ]; then
+
-		mkdir /dev/cpu
+	lt=0
-	fi
+	while [ ! -c /dev/cpu/microcode ]; do
-	/bin/mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184
+		lt=$[lt+1];
+		[ $lt -gt 5 ] && break;
+		sleep 1;
+	done
 
 	daemon $PROGRAM $ARGUMENTS
 	RETVAL=$?
@@ -54,7 +66,6 @@ function start ()
 		echo $"$0: kernel does not have microcode device support"
 	fi
 	/sbin/rmmod microcode
-	rm -f /dev/cpu/microcode
 	echo
 
 	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/microcode_ctl

microcode_ctl.spec

@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ family=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^cpu family" | sort -u | awk -F ": " '{ print
 exit 0
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jan 25 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
+- Drop the node creation/deletion change from previous release.
+  It'll cause grief with selinux, and was a hack to get around
+  a udev shortcoming that should be fixed properly.
+
 * Fri Jan 21 2005 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
 - Create/remove the /dev/cpu/microcode dev node as needed.
 - Use correct path again for the microcode.dat.