Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] net/vdev_netvsc: implement core functionality

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

10/01/2018 16:02, Matan Azrad:
> From: Stephen Hemminger, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:49 PM
> > On Tue,  9 Jan 2018 14:47:30 +0000
> > Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com> wrote:
> > > +	ret = rte_eal_alarm_set(VDEV_NETVSC_PROBE_MS * 1000,
> > > +				vdev_netvsc_alarm, NULL);
> > > +	if (ret < 0) {
> > > +		DRV_LOG(ERR, "unable to reschedule alarm callback: %s",
> > > +			rte_strerror(-ret));
> > > +	}
> > > +}
> > 
> > Why not use netlink uevent?
> 
> As described in doc, we can improve the hotplug mechanism(here and in fail-safe) after EAL hotplug work will be done.
> So, maybe in next release we will change it to use uevent by EAL hotplug.

I don't see any progress here for one week.
Yes it is a temporary solution waiting for hotplug event callback in EAL.
Hopefully it will be possible to do such improvements in 18.05.

Am I missing something else?
Or can it be applied to next-net?