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On 17/05/2021 22:43, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> In any case, the issue is not calling the hotplug script, responsible
> for configuring newly created vif interface. Not kernel waiting for it.
> So, I think both commits should still be reverted.

Did you also test the ability for a domU to have the netfront driver 
reloaded?  (That should be roughly equivalent to my original test 
scenario comprising the iPXE netfront driver used to boot a kernel that 
then loads the Linux netfront driver.)

Michael