Re: [libgpiod v2][PATCH 3/4] tools: add gpiowatch

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:41:21AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 4:27 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:46:28PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 3:46 PM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add a gpiowatch tool, based on gpiomon, but reporting line info change
> > > > events similar to the gpio-watch tool in the linux kernel.
> > > >
> > > > +       }

...

> > >
> > > Moar newlines, I really like between blocks of code, it really helps me, thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, ok, I see this as being one block.  Where would you like the splits?
> >
> 
> I will add them myself later, don't worry about it.
> 

I think I know what you mean.
Anyway, I'll add a tonne of whitespace...

> > > > +       print_event_time(evtime, event_clock_mode);
> > > > +       printf(" %s", evname);

Like here

> > > > +       if (chip_id)
> > > > +               printf(" %s %d", chip_id, gpiod_line_info_get_offset(info));

and here.

> > > > +       print_line_info(info);
> > > > +       printf("\n");
> > > > +}
> > > > +

...

> > > >
> > >
> > > Looks good to me, I would have probably added a machine-readable
> > > output formatting like gpiomon but we can always extend it later.
> > >
> >
> > You mean the format option?
> >
> 
> Yes. But that can be easily added later.
> 

I was thinking the Python bindings would be the way to go if you want
to extract specific bits.

Turns out when I created a new libgpiod workspace in my editor it
defaulted tabs to 4 spaces, which might've been the cause of some
unfortunate formatting.  Sorted for the next version.

Cheers,
Kent.