pyDevSup working as a module in require system

devsupApp/src/dbapi.c

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 initHookState pyInitLastState;
 
-extern int pyDevSupCommon_registerRecordDeviceDriver(DBBASE *pbase);
+/* extern int pyDevSupCommon_registerRecordDeviceDriver(DBBASE *pbase); */
 
 typedef struct {
     const initHookState state;
@@ -264,9 +264,11 @@ PyObject *py_iocInit(PyObject *unused, PyObject *args, PyObject *kws)
 static
 PyObject *py_pyDevSupCommon(PyObject *unused)
 {
+  /*
     Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS {
         pyDevSupCommon_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase);
     } Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+  */
 
     Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }

devsupApp/src/devsup/__init__.py

@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ from ._dbapi import (EPICS_VERSION_STRING,
 __all__ = []
 
 def _init(iocMain=False):
+    _dbapi._dbd_setup()
+    return
+
+def _initOld(iocMain=False):
     if not iocMain:
         # we haven't read/register base.dbd
         _dbapi.dbReadDatabase(os.path.join(XEPICS_BASE, "dbd", "base.dbd"),