[PATCH v2 0/4] Add SWIG Bindings to libcpupower

["John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com>]

SWIG is a tool packaged in Fedora and other distros that can generate
bindings from C and C++ code for several languages including Python,
Perl, and Go. Providing bindings for scripting languages is a common feature
to make use of libraries more accessible to more users and programs. My team
specifically wants to expand the features of rteval. rteval is a Python program
used to measure real time performance. We wanted to test the effect of enabling
some levels of idle-stat to see how it affects latency, and didn't want to
reinvent the wheel. Since SWIG requires the .o files created by libcpupower at
compilation it makes sense to include this in the cpupower directory so that
others can make use of them.

The V2 of this patchset includes:
* the full definition of libcpupower headers that is needed for the bindings
* dummy implementation in C of a function listed in the header of libcpupower
(requested by Shuah Khan)
* test_raw_pylibcpupower.py demonstrates an example of using the bindings
* adding myself and John Kacur to the cpupower section of the maintainers file
(requested by Shuah Khan)
* addressed review comments about doc, makefile, and maintainers file
* small style and other fixes

The name raw_pylibcpupower is used because a wrapper `pylibcpupower` may be
needed to make the bindings more 'pythonic' in the future. The bindings folder
is used because Go or Perl bindings may be useful for other users in the
future.

Note that while SWIG itself is GPL v3+ licensed; the resulting output, the
bindings code, has the same license as the .o files used to generate the
bindings (GPL v2 only). Please see
https://swig.org/legal.html
and
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/Zqv9BOjxLAgyNP5B@hatbackup/#t
for more details on the license.

Sincerely,
John Wyatt
Software Engineer, Core Kernel
Red Hat

John B. Wyatt IV (4):
  Add SWIG bindings files for libcpupower
  Implement dummy function for SWIG to accept the full library
    definitions
  Include test_raw_pylibcpupower.py
  MAINTAINERS: Add Maintainers for SWIG Python bindings

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   3 +
 .../power/cpupower/bindings/python/.gitignore |   8 +
 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/Makefile |  31 +++
 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/README   |  59 +++++
 .../bindings/python/raw_pylibcpupower.i       | 247 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../bindings/python/test_raw_pylibcpupower.py |  42 +++
 tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c           |   8 +
 7 files changed, 398 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/Makefile
 create mode 100644 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/README
 create mode 100644 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/raw_pylibcpupower.i
 create mode 100755 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/test_raw_pylibcpupower.py

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