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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V20 4/4] app/testpmd: enable device hotplug
	monitoring
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:48:25 +0200
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05/04/2018 18:10, Jeff Guo:
> Use testpmd for example, to show how an application uses device event
> APIs to monitor the hotplug events, including both hot removal event
> and hot insertion event.
> 
> The process is that, testpmd first enable hotplug by below commands,
> 
> E.g. ./build/app/testpmd -c 0x3 --n 4 -- -i --hot-plug

I am not convinced by the testpmd option.
Why not just a CLI command to start monitoring events?