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Updates the w1 documentation (w1.generic) Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The 1-wire (w1) subsystem
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The 1-wire bus is a simple master-slave bus that communicates via a single
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signal wire (plus ground, so two wires).
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Devices communicate on the bus by pulling the signal to ground via an open
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drain output and by sampling the logic level of the signal line.
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The w1 subsystem provides the framework for managing w1 masters and
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communication with slaves.
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All w1 slave devices must be connected to a w1 bus master device.
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Example w1 master devices:
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DS9490 usb device
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W1-over-GPIO
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DS2482 (i2c to w1 bridge)
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Emulated devices, such as a RS232 converter, parallel port adapter, etc
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What does the w1 subsystem do?
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When a w1 master driver registers with the w1 subsystem, the following occurs:
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- sysfs entries for that w1 master are created
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- the w1 bus is periodically searched for new slave devices
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When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for it's family is
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loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave.
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If there is no driver for the family, a simple sysfs entry is created
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for the slave device.
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W1 device families
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Slave devices are handled by a driver written for a family of w1 devices.
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A family driver populates a struct w1_family_ops (see w1_family.h) and
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registers with the w1 subsystem.
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Current family drivers:
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w1_therm - (ds18?20 thermal sensor family driver)
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provides temperature reading function which is bound to ->rbin() method
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of the above w1_family_ops structure.
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w1_smem - driver for simple 64bit memory cell provides ID reading method.
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You can call above methods by reading appropriate sysfs files.
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What does a w1 master driver need to implement?
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The driver for w1 bus master must provide at minimum two functions.
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Emulated devices must provide the ability to set the output signal level
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(write_bit) and sample the signal level (read_bit).
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Devices that support the 1-wire natively must provide the ability to write and
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sample a bit (touch_bit) and reset the bus (reset_bus).
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Most hardware provides higher-level functions that offload w1 handling.
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See struct w1_bus_master definition in w1.h for details.
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w1 master sysfs interface
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<xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx> - a directory for a found device. The format is family-serial
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bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus
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driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver
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w1_master_attempts - the number of times a search was attempted
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w1_master_max_slave_count
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- the maximum slaves that may be attached to a master
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w1_master_name - the name of the device (w1_bus_masterX)
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w1_master_search - the number of searches left to do, -1=continual (default)
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w1_master_slave_count
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- the number of slaves found
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w1_master_slaves - the names of the slaves, one per line
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w1_master_timeout - the delay in seconds between searches
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If you have a w1 bus that never changes (you don't add or remove devices),
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you can set w1_master_search to a positive value to disable searches.
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w1 slave sysfs interface
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bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus
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driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver
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name - the device name, usually the same as the directory name
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w1_slave - (optional) a binary file whose meaning depends on the
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family driver
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