[PATCH 0/5] xend: Notify xend of udev hardware events

[Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>]

There are several xen-api classes that represent physical devices,
such as PIF, PPCI and PSCSI. At the initialization step, xend creates
instances of these classes and stores them, so as to later expose
the host's available physical resources to remote clients.

The problem is that, when you hot-add of hot-remove a physical device
to of from the host, currently there is no way xend can detect that.
So the physical resource information kept in xend may become inconsistent
with the real state. 

This series of patches makes xend get notification of hardware changes
and update the physical resource information. Inside xend, we runs a thread
which opens a socket and listens to events of hardware configuration changes
from udev mechanism.

For now, these patches only support the configuration change of pci devices,
but it would be easy to add support for other types of physical devices
(e.g. net or scsi). 

Regards,
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Yosuke Iwamatsu
        NEC Corporation