[ofa-general] /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm not created

[Jeff Squyres]

I'm running on rhel4u6 with the 1.4.1 nightly from last night and  
sometimes /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm is not created.  I can see its entry  
in /etc/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules:

KERNEL="umad*", NAME="infiniband/%k"
KERNEL="issm*", NAME="infiniband/%k"
KERNEL="ucm*", NAME="infiniband/%k", MODE="0666"
KERNEL="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k", MODE="0666"
KERNEL="ucma", NAME="infiniband/%k", MODE="0666"
KERNEL="rdma_cm", NAME="infiniband/%k", MODE="0666"

But only some of these are created:

[11:29] svbu-mpi005:/etc/udev/rules.d % l /dev/infiniband/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      120 May 13 02:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root     5740 May 13 09:39 ../
crw-------   1 root root 231,  64 May 13 02:39 issm0
crw-------   1 root root 231,   0 May 13 02:39 umad0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 231, 192 May 13 02:39 uverbs0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 231, 193 May 13 02:39 uverbs1
[11:29] svbu-mpi005:/etc/udev/rules.d %

I have both an IB HCA and an iWARP RNIC in this server:

hca_id:	mthca0
	fw_ver:				1.2.917
	node_guid:			0005:ad00:0008:bd60
	sys_image_guid:			0005:ad00:0100:d050
	vendor_id:			0x05ad
	vendor_part_id:			25204
	hw_ver:				0xA0
	board_id:			MT_03B0120002
	phys_port_cnt:			1
		port:	1
			state:			PORT_ACTIVE (4)
			max_mtu:		2048 (4)
			active_mtu:		2048 (4)
			sm_lid:			2
			port_lid:		34
			port_lmc:		0x00

hca_id:	nes0
	node_guid:			0012:5502:b58c:0000
	sys_image_guid:			0012:5502:b58c:0000
	vendor_id:			0x1255
	vendor_part_id:			256
	hw_ver:				0x5
	board_id:			NES020 Board ID
	phys_port_cnt:			1
		port:	1
			state:			PORT_ACTIVE (4)
			max_mtu:		2048 (4)
			active_mtu:		2048 (4)
			sm_lid:			0
			port_lid:		1
			port_lmc:		0x00

I don't see any obvious errors occurring in syslog or dmesg.

What could cause this failure?

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems