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author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 08:41:41 -0400 |
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committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 13:07:53 -0400 |
commit | 816724e65c72a90a44fbad0ef0b59b186c85fa90 (patch) | |
tree | 421fa29aedff988e392f92780637553e275d37a0 /Documentation/w1/w1.generic | |
parent | 70ac4385a13f78bc478f26d317511893741b05bd (diff) | |
parent | d384ea691fe4ea8c2dd5b9b8d9042eb181776f18 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
fs/nfs/inode.c
fs/super.c
Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/w1/w1.generic')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/w1/w1.generic | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic index f937fbe1cac..4c6509dd478 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic +++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic @@ -27,8 +27,19 @@ When a w1 master driver registers with the w1 subsystem, the following occurs: When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for it's family is loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave. -If there is no driver for the family, a simple sysfs entry is created -for the slave device. +If there is no driver for the family, default one is assigned, which allows to perform +almost any kind of operations. Each logical operation is a transaction +in nature, which can contain several (two or one) low-level operations. +Let's see how one can read EEPROM context: +1. one must write control buffer, i.e. buffer containing command byte +and two byte address. At this step bus is reset and appropriate device +is selected using either W1_SKIP_ROM or W1_MATCH_ROM command. +Then provided control buffer is being written to the wire. +2. reading. This will issue reading eeprom response. + +It is possible that between 1. and 2. w1 master thread will reset bus for searching +and slave device will be even removed, but in this case 0xff will +be read, since no device was selected. W1 device families @@ -89,4 +100,5 @@ driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver name - the device name, usually the same as the directory name w1_slave - (optional) a binary file whose meaning depends on the family driver - +rw - (optional) created for slave devices which do not have + appropriate family driver. Allows to read/write binary data. |