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[RFC,v3,00/26] Bus and device cleanup for 22.11

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David Marchand July 28, 2022, 3:26 p.m. UTC 
  This is a PoC for hiding the rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device objects.
And mark associated driver only API as internal.

A good amount of the patches are preparation work on rte_bus.h,
rte_dev.h, rte_devargs.h and rte_eal.h headers, removing dependencies
between them.

PCI bus specific handling are removed from testpmd, unit tests and
examples.

After this series, driver-only API headers for registering to buses are
not exported anymore, unless the enable_driver_sdk meson option is
selected.

New accessors for rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device have been added,
marked with an experimental tag first when introducing them, and later
in the series marked as stable since external users will want to use
those drop-in replacements right away.

A check is added to ensure we won't pollute app/ and examples/ again,
though some unit tests are left intentionnally untouched as they test
some internals of DPDK.

Comments welcome.

Changes since RFC v2:
- added check for additions of include .*_(driver|pmd)\.h in apps and
  examples,
- dropped legacy/debug testpmd commands to read PCI BAR0 registers,
- dropped patches on bbdev, ethdev, rawdev driver headers for now,
- reordered patches and separated changes per bus type to ease review,
- added more accessor for device,
- introduced rte_dev_bus_info to provide a Bus specific description of
  a device, a first use is for providing a PCI device vendor / device
  identifiers that are otherwise unavailable through a generic existing
  API,

Changes since RFC v1:
- added two more cleanups (new patch 3 and 4) for unit test and examples
  relying on PCI specific info,
- went on with masking rte_driver and rte_device too,