[PATCH v1 0/1] Rewrite devbind

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon,  2 Dec 2024 15:09:33 +0000
Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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/
> 
> Anatoly Burakov (1):
>   usertools/devbind: update coding style
> 
>  usertools/dpdk-devbind.py | 1736 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 968 insertions(+), 768 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good, but needs to be rebased to current 24.11