[PATCH v3 0/2] Rewrite devbind

[Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

It has been suggested [1] that a major cleanup/rewrite of devbind would be
beneficial in terms of long term maintainability of the code. I was in a
coding mood over the weekend, and so I've went ahead and rewritten devbind.

Note that this is one giant patch, rather than a series of patches adjusting
existing code. Making it a patch series is possible, however the internal
code architecture diverges quite significantly from the original devbind
script due to its copious usage of string operations/pattern matching and
global variables, so it is unclear whether subdividing this patch would be
worth the effort. Instead, as has been suggested [2], the patchset now
consists of creating a new file, followed by a removal of old file and
rename of the new file. It is expected that this will be squashed on apply.

The script has become slightly bigger - 1000 lines instead of 800, however
I would argue that since most of that increase is infrastructure, comments,
and sacrificing code golf for code readability (such as expanding one-liners
into multiple lines), the trade-off between being able to read and reason
about what happens in the script is worth the added line count.

[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/c2bf00195c2d43833a831a9cc9346b4606d6ea2e.1723810613.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com/
[2] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/cover.1733151400.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com/

Anatoly Burakov (2):
  usertools/devbind: update coding style
  usertools/devbind: replace devbind

 doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst |   11 +
 usertools/dpdk-devbind.py    | 1683 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 924 insertions(+), 770 deletions(-)

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