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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] fix hotplug API
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:27:45 +0300
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Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>,
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15/07/2017 20:56, Gaetan Rivet:
> Sending those fixes as separate patches as they stand on their own.
> This series improves usability of the hotplug API and fixes a few issues
> with existing implementations.
> 
> The hotplug API can be tested with the fail-safe PMD[1]. Its
> documentation describes how to declare slaves and how to use it.
[...]
> Gaetan Rivet (8):
>   vdev: implement plug operation
>   devargs: introduce removal function
>   devargs: introduce insert function
>   eal: fix hotplug add / remove
>   pci: use given name as generic name
>   pci: fix generic driver pointer on probe error
>   pci: fix hotplug operations
>   bus: remove useless plug parameter

Applied to fix the current bus state, thanks.
It is now clear that it can be done differently in 17.11 after
the deprecation of the device specification syntax.
Jan already sent some patches in this direction.