The old method only worked out of the box if you were running Python
2.1 on a 586. I imagine that is too small a slice of current users to
be worth hard coding ;).
This catches it up for the folowing commits to the comedi repository:
commit 311e9c540217d60bdf56a1dba9eafe474fd3b218
Author: Bernd Porr <Bernd.Porr@f2s.com>
Date: Sun Jan 13 23:07:02 2008 +0000
Added a proper PWM subdevice for comedi.
commit 8092ed57ff38e1fcaf75a7e0bf3b8c4f5372f3d7
Author: Frank Mori Hess <fmhess@speakeasy.net>
Date: Sat Jan 31 22:13:09 2004 +0000
serial dio (SCXI) support from Caleb Tennis
This catches the Python demos up to:
commit 003b9ec501
Author: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Mon Nov 8 11:01:42 2010 +0000
Add chanlist_len parameter to comedi_get_cmd_generic_timed.
