From: David Fries Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: W1: Document add, remove, search_count, and pullup. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~323 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eba3b06da4bd8b79fe6c8ed922a319362c1a40c0;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git W1: Document add, remove, search_count, and pullup. Document w1_master_add, w1_master_remove, search_count, and pullup. Signed-off-by: David Fries Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic index 4c6509dd478..e3333eec432 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic +++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic @@ -79,10 +79,13 @@ w1 master sysfs interface - a directory for a found device. The format is family-serial bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver +w1_master_add - Manually register a slave device w1_master_attempts - the number of times a search was attempted w1_master_max_slave_count - the maximum slaves that may be attached to a master w1_master_name - the name of the device (w1_bus_masterX) +w1_master_pullup - 5V strong pullup 0 enabled, 1 disabled +w1_master_remove - Manually remove a slave device w1_master_search - the number of searches left to do, -1=continual (default) w1_master_slave_count - the number of slaves found @@ -90,7 +93,13 @@ w1_master_slaves - the names of the slaves, one per line w1_master_timeout - the delay in seconds between searches If you have a w1 bus that never changes (you don't add or remove devices), -you can set w1_master_search to a positive value to disable searches. +you can set the module parameter search_count to a small positive number +for an initially small number of bus searches. Alternatively it could be +set to zero, then manually add the slave device serial numbers by +w1_master_add device file. The w1_master_add and w1_master_remove files +generally only make sense when searching is disabled, as a search will +redetect manually removed devices that are present and timeout manually +added devices that aren't on the bus. w1 slave sysfs interface