Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 00/14] treewide: start shaving off cruft for v2.0

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:23:01PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The following series removes a lot of interfaces that were deemed overkill
> in libgpiod and the removal of which was suggested to me before proceeding
> with the new API.
> 
> This leaves a couple holes in the library but we'll follow them up with
> more improvements all over the tree. We'll create a new object called
> gpiod_request for dealing with line requests of arbitrary size. We'll
> probably remove the the bulk objects from bindings and eventually we'll
> switch to using the v2 kernel uAPI.
> 
> Andy - a note for you: I know you're always very thorough in your reviews
> but in this case let's consider this series preparing a construction zone
> for the new API. Please don't nitpick too much. :)

I don't know what you are talking about. The series looks nice, esp. taking
into account statistics! FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

One side note, though. Are you already plan to support autotools-2.70?

> Bartosz Golaszewski (14):
>   bindings: cxx: check for error from gpiod_line_bulk_new()
>   build: drop the message about tests having been built successfully
>   core: export gpiod_is_gpiochip_device()
>   bulk: drop the limit on the max number of lines
>   core: drop line iterators
>   treewide: kill opening chips by label
>   API: move gpiod_line_get_chip() to line attributes section
>   core: kill gpiod_line_close_chip()
>   core: kill gpiod_line_get()
>   treewide: kill global line lookup
>   treewide: kill find_lines()
>   core: rework gpiod_chip_find_line()
>   build: add a configure switch for building examples
>   core: kill chip iterators
> 
>  bindings/cxx/Makefile.am                |   8 +-
>  bindings/cxx/chip.cpp                   |  47 +--
>  bindings/cxx/examples/Makefile.am       |   4 +-
>  bindings/cxx/examples/gpiodetectcxx.cpp |  13 +-
>  bindings/cxx/examples/gpiofindcxx.cpp   |  18 +-
>  bindings/cxx/examples/gpioinfocxx.cpp   |  43 ++-
>  bindings/cxx/gpiod.hpp                  | 147 +-------
>  bindings/cxx/iter.cpp                   |  95 +----
>  bindings/cxx/line.cpp                   |  15 -
>  bindings/cxx/line_bulk.cpp              |  24 +-
>  bindings/cxx/tests/tests-chip.cpp       |  62 ++--
>  bindings/cxx/tests/tests-iter.cpp       |  37 --
>  bindings/cxx/tests/tests-line.cpp       |  19 -
>  bindings/python/Makefile.am             |  10 +-
>  bindings/python/examples/gpiodetect.py  |  12 +-
>  bindings/python/examples/gpiofind.py    |  15 +-
>  bindings/python/examples/gpioinfo.py    |  33 +-
>  bindings/python/gpiodmodule.c           | 473 +++++++-----------------
>  bindings/python/tests/gpiod_py_test.py  | 100 +----
>  configure.ac                            |  12 +
>  include/gpiod.h                         | 258 ++-----------
>  lib/Makefile.am                         |   2 +-
>  lib/core.c                              |  12 +-
>  lib/helpers.c                           | 176 +++------
>  lib/iter.c                              | 171 ---------
>  tests/Makefile.am                       |  13 -
>  tests/gpiod-test.h                      |   4 -
>  tests/tests-bulk.c                      |   9 -
>  tests/tests-chip.c                      |  97 +----
>  tests/tests-iter.c                      | 123 ------
>  tests/tests-line.c                      |  52 ---
>  tools/gpiodetect.c                      |  29 +-
>  tools/gpiofind.c                        |  34 +-
>  tools/gpioinfo.c                        |  41 +-
>  tools/gpiomon.c                         |   5 +-
>  tools/tools-common.c                    |  15 +
>  tools/tools-common.h                    |   3 +
>  37 files changed, 557 insertions(+), 1674 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 lib/iter.c
>  delete mode 100644 tests/tests-iter.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.29.1
> 

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko