1 The 1-wire (w1) subsystem
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3 The 1-wire bus is a simple master-slave bus that communicates via a single
4 signal wire (plus ground, so two wires).
6 Devices communicate on the bus by pulling the signal to ground via an open
7 drain output and by sampling the logic level of the signal line.
9 The w1 subsystem provides the framework for managing w1 masters and
10 communication with slaves.
12 All w1 slave devices must be connected to a w1 bus master device.
14 Example w1 master devices:
17 DS2482 (i2c to w1 bridge)
18 Emulated devices, such as a RS232 converter, parallel port adapter, etc
21 What does the w1 subsystem do?
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23 When a w1 master driver registers with the w1 subsystem, the following occurs:
25 - sysfs entries for that w1 master are created
26 - the w1 bus is periodically searched for new slave devices
28 When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for it's family is
29 loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave.
30 If there is no driver for the family, a simple sysfs entry is created
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36 Slave devices are handled by a driver written for a family of w1 devices.
38 A family driver populates a struct w1_family_ops (see w1_family.h) and
39 registers with the w1 subsystem.
41 Current family drivers:
42 w1_therm - (ds18?20 thermal sensor family driver)
43 provides temperature reading function which is bound to ->rbin() method
44 of the above w1_family_ops structure.
46 w1_smem - driver for simple 64bit memory cell provides ID reading method.
48 You can call above methods by reading appropriate sysfs files.
51 What does a w1 master driver need to implement?
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54 The driver for w1 bus master must provide at minimum two functions.
56 Emulated devices must provide the ability to set the output signal level
57 (write_bit) and sample the signal level (read_bit).
59 Devices that support the 1-wire natively must provide the ability to write and
60 sample a bit (touch_bit) and reset the bus (reset_bus).
62 Most hardware provides higher-level functions that offload w1 handling.
63 See struct w1_bus_master definition in w1.h for details.
66 w1 master sysfs interface
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68 <xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx> - a directory for a found device. The format is family-serial
69 bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus
70 driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver
71 w1_master_attempts - the number of times a search was attempted
72 w1_master_max_slave_count
73 - the maximum slaves that may be attached to a master
74 w1_master_name - the name of the device (w1_bus_masterX)
75 w1_master_search - the number of searches left to do, -1=continual (default)
77 - the number of slaves found
78 w1_master_slaves - the names of the slaves, one per line
79 w1_master_timeout - the delay in seconds between searches
81 If you have a w1 bus that never changes (you don't add or remove devices),
82 you can set w1_master_search to a positive value to disable searches.
85 w1 slave sysfs interface
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87 bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus
88 driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver
89 name - the device name, usually the same as the directory name
90 w1_slave - (optional) a binary file whose meaning depends on the