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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] net/failsafe: add plug-in support
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 08:15:26 -0700
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On Mon, 29 May 2017 15:42:17 +0200
Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com> wrote:

> Periodically check for the existence of a device.
> If a device has not been initialized and exists on the system, then it
> is probed and configured.
> 
> The configuration process strives to synchronize the states between the
> plugged-in sub-device and the fail-safe device.

There are existing event models (udev and netlink) that could be used to
do plug-in support without polling. Polling relies on application doing
rte_alarms and many don't.