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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 13/15] eal: add hotplug add/remove
	functions
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:20:17 +0100
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:11:42AM +0200, Gaëtan Rivet wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:06:03AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 29/06/2017 20:22, Jan Blunck:
> > >  /**
> > > + * Hotplug add a given device to a specific bus.
> > > + *
> > > + * @param busname
> > > + *   The bus name the device is added to.
> > > + * @param devname
> > > + *   The device name. Based on this device name, eal will identify a driver
> > > + *   capable of handling it and pass it to the driver probing function.
> > > + * @param devargs
> > > + *   Device arguments to be passed to the driver.
> > > + * @return
> > > + *   0 on success, negative on error.
> > > + */
> > > +int rte_eal_hotplug_add(const char *busname, const char *devname,
> > > +			const char *devargs);
> > 
> > After the hotplug, we may need to get the rte_device.
> > Should we add a struct **rte_device as parameter,
> > or should we add a helper function to get the rte_device
> > from busname and devname?
> 
> Also possible: return a struct *rte_device and set rte_errno on error.
> 
+1 for this option.