* Refactor common network shared and platform specific code into package (part-1)
As per proposal #76 refactor common network shared and platform specific
code into sub-package.
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/76
* ansible.module_utils.network.common - command shared functions
* ansible.module_utils.network.{{ platform }} - where platform is platform specific shared functions
* Fix review comments
* Fix review comments
Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
* module will now check protocol running state before return
* warns on config argument no longer being needed
* lots of integration test cases updated
* updates unit and integration test cases for state check
fixes#21908
* fixes issue with load_provider() not checking for an existing key
* adds updates to eos_config results key
* lots of minor syntax fixes in eos shared module
* adds eos_argument_spec to eos_eapi
fixes#21402
* updates eos modules to use persistent connection socket
* removes split eos shared module and combines into one
* adds singular eos doc frag (eos_local to be removed after module updates)
* updates unit test cases
The eos_eapi module would not configure the port if the protocol wasn't
configured as reported in #4905. This changes the behavior to now allow
the port to be configured independently
fixes#4905
* add support for vrf configurations
* add support for configing the qos value for eapi
* add config argument to specify the device running-config
Tested on EOS 4.15.4F