Re: [libgpiod v2][PATCH v3 4/5] tools: add gpiowatch

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 2:29 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add a gpiowatch tool, based on gpiomon, to report line info change
> events read from chip file descriptors.
>
> Inspired by the gpio-watch tool in the linux kernel, but with gpiomon
> features such as custom formatted output, filtering events of
> interest and exiting after a number of events, so more useful for
> scripting.
>
> Default output is minimalist, so just time, event type and line id.
> Full event details are available using the custom formatted output.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes v2 -> v3:
>    - Minimise the default output to more closely match gpiomon.
>    - Add --format option for when more detail is required.
>    - Add --num-events option to exit after a number of events.
>    - Add --event option to report only specific event types.
>    - Add --quiet option to not print events.
>    - fix monotonic to realtime conversion on 32 bit platforms.
>

Nice and clean, I don't have any issues other than the regular
coding-style bikeshedding.

What happened to the idea we've been floating about creating a single,
busyboxy executable with links rather than separate executables? Have
we ever agreed on it?

Bart