Previously, the external module relied on gpiod attributes being present
within `globals()` to construct return values back to the caller.
This assumption required callers of the external module to have imported
the attributes to populate `globals()` for the interface to work.
Having this implicit contract is opaque and prone to causing issues if
imports within gpiod modules ever get reworked.
Now, the external module explicitly imports attributes from gpiod in
order to return values back to the caller.
There should be no concern about circular imports as the external module
should be completely imported by the time callers call into it.
Since Py_gpiod_GetGlobalType is no longer used, it has been replaced
with Py_gpiod_GetModuleAttrString which returns a new PyObject*
reference for the named module and attribute that must be decremented
when no longer in use.
Closes: https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod/issues/101
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008175139.1198980-1-vfazio@xes-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
This commit is the result of a squash of all the commits created during
the development of libgpiod v2. This is done to preserve bisectability
of the git tree. It contains significant re-writes of the core C library
as well as C++ and python bindings. The tools have been adjusted to work
with the new API but have not undergone significant changes yet.
This commit contains the bulk of the work on libgpiod v2 but the
development continues with more changes planned.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
[Ben: fix format specifier for uint64_t]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@mind.be>
[Viresh: Fix ioctl number for gpiod_line_request_reconfigure_lines()]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[Kent: bug fixes, improvements, better pointer contracts, type strictness]
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
