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From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus/vdev: add custom scan hook
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:56:40 +0800
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On 12/5/2017 4:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
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> 05/12/2017 09:27, Tan, Jianfeng:
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> >
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> > On 12/4/2017 5:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
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> > >
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> > > The hook is in bus->scan().
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> > > I think we should launch a bus scan when there is a new device event.
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> >
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> > That's what I'm trying to say. We finally need to execute a handler as
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> > of a device event to finish the job.
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> Please be more specific, I am not sure to understand.
>

By the handler, I mean when we monitor the udev by select/poll/epoll and 
device uevents come, the application will execute a handler (or just a 
function) for each of such uevent. Then why not adding the vdev there?

Thanks,
Jianfeng