- Update to 1.2:
* New features:
- new contextless event monitor that should replace the previous event loop
which caused problems on hardware that doesn't allow to watch both rising
and falling edge events
- port gpiomon to the new event monitor
- deprecate event loop routines
* Improvements:
- many minor improvements and tweaks in the python module
- new test cases for python bindings
- add much more detailed documentation for python bindings
- coding style improvements in gpio-tools
- remove unicode characters from build scripts
- improve the help text messages in gpio-tools
- make gpiod_chip_open() and its variants verify that we're really trying to
open a character device associated with a GPIO chip
* Bug fixes:
- fix memory leaks in python bindings
- fix a memory corruption bug in python bindings
- fix the default_vals argument in line request implementation in python
bindings
- fix a compilation warning in python bindings
- fix gpiod_Chip_find_lines() for nonexistent lines (python bindings)
- add a missing include in C++ bindings examples
- correctly display the version string in gpio-tools