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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bus/vdev: add custom scan hook
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:05:10 +0100
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03/01/2018 02:16, Tan, Jianfeng:
> 
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > 
> > The scan callback allows to spawn a vdev automatically
> > given some custom scan rules.
> > It is especially useful to create a TAP device automatically
> > connected to a netdevice as remote.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 
> Might worth a note in new feature section of the release doc. Besides that,

It becomes a feature only when it is used in some drivers.
I don't think alone it deserves an entry in the release notes.

> Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>