eal: add hotplug add/remove device

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / common / include / rte_dev.h

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_dev.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_dev.h
index de20c06..a0d67d0 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_dev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_dev.h
@@ -191,6 +191,61 @@ int rte_eal_dev_attach(const char *name, const char *devargs);
  */
 int rte_eal_dev_detach(const char *name);
 
+/**
+ * @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) \