-#define PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER(drv, nm)\
-RTE_INIT(probefn_ ##drv);\
-static void probefn_ ##drv(void)\
-{\
- (drv).name = RTE_STR(nm);\
- rte_eal_driver_register(&drv);\
-} \
-DRIVER_EXPORT_NAME(nm, __COUNTER__)
+/**
+ * @warning
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
+ *
+ * Hotplug add a given device to a specific bus.
+ *
+ * @param busname
+ * The bus name the device is added to.
+ * @param devname
+ * The device name. Based on this device name, eal will identify a driver
+ * capable of handling it and pass it to the driver probing function.
+ * @param devargs
+ * Device arguments to be passed to the driver.
+ * @return
+ * 0 on success, negative on error.
+ */
+int rte_eal_hotplug_add(const char *busname, const char *devname,
+ const char *devargs);
+
+/**
+ * @warning
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
+ *
+ * Hotplug remove a given device from a specific bus.
+ *
+ * @param busname
+ * The bus name the device is removed from.
+ * @param devname
+ * The device name being removed.
+ * @return
+ * 0 on success, negative on error.
+ */
+int rte_eal_hotplug_remove(const char *busname, const char *devname);
+
+/**
+ * Device comparison function.
+ *
+ * This type of function is used to compare an rte_device with arbitrary
+ * data.
+ *
+ * @param dev
+ * Device handle.
+ *
+ * @param data
+ * Data to compare against. The type of this parameter is determined by
+ * the kind of comparison performed by the function.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * 0 if the device matches the data.
+ * !0 if the device does not match.
+ * <0 if ordering is possible and the device is lower than the data.
+ * >0 if ordering is possible and the device is greater than the data.
+ */
+typedef int (*rte_dev_cmp_t)(const struct rte_device *dev, const void *data);
+
+#define RTE_PMD_EXPORT_NAME_ARRAY(n, idx) n##idx[]
+
+#define RTE_PMD_EXPORT_NAME(name, idx) \
+static const char RTE_PMD_EXPORT_NAME_ARRAY(this_pmd_name, idx) \
+__attribute__((used)) = RTE_STR(name)