[CentOS] Oddity with 4.5 and linode.com

I just did a "yum update" on my linode instance to update from 4.4 to 4.5.
That worked just fine.

But on reboot it took 3 minutes to do the "checking for new hardware" stage.
I initially thought that's because of a new release, so I did another reboot.
That also took 2 minutes.

OK, a minor issue (I don't reboot often) but... dunno if this is a UML
issue or a linode specific issue, but 2 minutes in kudzu is a little odd!

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rgds
Stephen