On Mon, 29 May 2017 15:42:17 +0200 Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com> wrote:
> Periodically check for the existence of a device. > If a device has not been initialized and exists on the system, then it > is probed and configured. > > The configuration process strives to synchronize the states between the > plugged-in sub-device and the fail-safe device. There are existing event models (udev and netlink) that could be used to do plug-in support without polling. Polling relies on application doing rte_alarms and many don't.
