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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 16:27:59 +0800
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On 12/4/2017 5:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
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> The hook is in bus->scan().
> I think we should launch a bus scan when there is a new device event.

That's what I'm trying to say. We finally need to execute a handler as 
of a device event to finish the job.

Then why not just keep the vdev plug in that handler, by calling 
rte_dev_hotplug_add()?

Thanks,
Jianfeng