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[Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following the patchworks link this seems to be being disputed as the
right approach:

"I'm not sure about that one ..." from BenH.

Can we get Ben to comment on where we are going first.

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Title:
  Hotplug of virtio(block/net) devices not detected inside ppc64el guest

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “powerpc-ibm-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “linux” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in “powerpc-ibm-utils” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On ppc64el, a kernel patch and a userspace patch are needed to have
  hotplugging of devices via e.g. 'virsh attach-interface' properly
  detected by a guest kernel.

    http://sourceforge.net/p/powerpc-utils/mailman/message/32064992/
    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/327089/

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