Re: [PATCH V2 2/4] libgpiod: Add rust wrappers

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06-01-22, 23:47, Kent Gibson wrote:
> In case you are interested, the first pass of my take on a Rust GPIO
> library[1] has finally gotten to the point of being core feature complete,
> and may be usable, although it is sorely lacking any integration tests.
> And the documentation is still pretty light, or even non-existant for
> github.
> And the event interface is either polled or blocking - haven't gotten to
> an async interface yet.
> 
> Anyway, there are three crates there:
>  - gpiod-uapi provides a thin and safe wrapper around the ioctls and
>    file reads, for both uAPI versions.
>  - gpiod provides a more idiomatic abstraction, and hides the uAPI
>    version being used - unless you need v2 specific features.
>  - gpiodctl provides a binary that bundles all the gpio tools into one.
> 
> There are a couple of minimal example apps in the gpiod crate, in
> addition to the example that gpiodctl provides.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kent.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/warthog618/gpiod-rs

Nice stuff, thanks Kent for sharing that.

I may end up using the libgpiod wrappers though, since I have already done the
development using it and it is going to be low maintenance work for me :)

But it is really nice to have raw ioctl interface too for the GPIO devices.

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viresh