[PATCH 24.03 0/4] add new command line argument parsing library

[Euan Bourke <euan.bourke@intel.com>]

A recent thread on the mailing list[1] discussed corelist and coremask parsing
and the idea of a new library dedicated to command line parsing was
mentioned[2]. As I had been working on a public corelist parsing API at the
time, this patchset adds the library, along with the new APIs, edits to EAL
functions to call the API instead of implementing their own, and changes to
the dlb2 driver to call the API.

The new APIs work similar to existing functions in EAL, however instead of
filling a core array like this:
[1, -1, -1, 2, 3] (a non -1 refers to an 'active core' at that index)
It fills it like this:
[0, 3, 4] (with the value at each index being an 'active core').

The new APIs will also return the number of cores contained in the passed
corelist/coremask, so in the above example, 3 would be returned.

Planned future work for the library contains more parsing functions such as a
"core string parser" which would take a string and return whether its a corelist
or coremask based on heuristics. This could then be passed into the appropriate
function.

There are also several functions in EAL that implement their own version of a
corelist/coremask parser, so the plan is to rework those in future versions of
this patch.

[1] Link to start of thread:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-November/280957.html
[2] Link to the mention of a new library:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-November/280966.html

Euan Bourke (4):
  arg_parser: new library for command line parsing
  arg_parser: add new coremask parsing API
  eal: add support for new arg parsing library
  dlb2: add new arg parsing library API support

 .mailmap                                   |   1 +
 MAINTAINERS                                |   5 +
 doc/api/doxy-api-index.md                  |   3 +-
 doc/api/doxy-api.conf.in                   |   1 +
 drivers/event/dlb2/dlb2_priv.h             |   4 +-
 drivers/event/dlb2/pf/base/dlb2_resource.c |  54 +++----
 lib/arg_parser/arg_parser.c                | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/arg_parser/meson.build                 |   7 +
 lib/arg_parser/rte_arg_parser.h            |  99 ++++++++++++
 lib/arg_parser/version.map                 |  11 ++
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c        | 114 ++------------
 lib/eal/meson.build                        |   2 +-
 lib/meson.build                            |   1 +
 13 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/arg_parser/arg_parser.c
 create mode 100644 lib/arg_parser/meson.build
 create mode 100644 lib/arg_parser/rte_arg_parser.h
 create mode 100644 lib/arg_parser/version.map

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