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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] librte_ether: add internal callback
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 02:12:43 -0700
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I know callbacks are needed, in fact even more are necessary. That is why
I  don't like this design. It expands the API for each event. I think
something like the Linux kernel netlink callback mechanism that passes an
event and device handle.