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authorAkira Shimahara <akira215corp@gmail.com>2020-05-11 22:38:20 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-05-15 16:29:00 +0200
commit57c76221d5af648c8355a55c09b050c5d8d38189 (patch)
tree7b07dd6dbd2a5d8b42247b778ceeccb348f083da /Documentation/w1
parente2c94d6f572079511945e64537eb1218643f2e68 (diff)
w1_therm: adding bulk read support to trigger multiple conversion on bus
Adding bulk read support: Sending a 'trigger' command in the dedicated sysfs entry of bus master device send a conversion command for all the slaves on the bus. The sysfs entry is added as soon as at least one device supporting this feature is detected on the bus. The behavior of the sysfs reading temperature on the device is as follow: * If no bulk read pending, trigger a conversion on the device, wait for the conversion to be done, read the temperature in device RAM * If a bulk read has been trigger, access directly the device RAM This behavior is the same on the 2 sysfs entries ('temperature' and 'w1_slave'). Reading the therm_bulk_read sysfs give the status of bulk operations: * '-1': conversion in progress on at least 1 sensor * '1': conversion complete but at least one sensor has not been read yet * '0': no bulk operation. Reading temperature on ecah device will trigger a conversion As not all devices support bulk read feature, it has been added in device family structure. The attribute is set at master level as soon as a supporting device is discover. It is removed when the last supported device leave the bus. The count of supported device is kept with the static counter bulk_read_device_counter. A strong pull up is apply on the line if at least one device required it. The duration of the pull up is the max time required by a device on the line, which depends on the resolution settings of each device. The strong pull up could be adjust with the a module parameter. Updating documentation in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-w1_therm and Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst accordingly. Signed-off-by: Akira Shimahara <akira215corp@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511203820.411483-1-akira215corp@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst50
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst
index 90531c340a07..cc4edae17751 100644
--- a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst
@@ -26,20 +26,31 @@ W1_THERM_DS1825 0x3B
W1_THERM_DS28EA00 0x42
==================== ====
-Support is provided through the sysfs w1_slave file. Each open and
+Support is provided through the sysfs w1_slave file. Each open and
read sequence will initiate a temperature conversion then provide two
-lines of ASCII output. The first line contains the nine hex bytes
+lines of ASCII output. The first line contains the nine hex bytes
read along with a calculated crc value and YES or NO if it matched.
-If the crc matched the returned values are retained. The second line
+If the crc matched the returned values are retained. The second line
displays the retained values along with a temperature in millidegrees
Centigrade after t=.
-Parasite powered devices are limited to one slave performing a
-temperature conversion at a time. If none of the devices are parasite
-powered it would be possible to convert all the devices at the same
-time and then go back to read individual sensors. That isn't
-currently supported. The driver also doesn't support reduced
-precision (which would also reduce the conversion time) when reading values.
+Alternatively, temperature can be read using temperature sysfs, it
+return only temperature in millidegrees Centigrade.
+
+A bulk read of all devices on the bus could be done writing 'trigger'
+in the therm_bulk_read sysfs entry at w1_bus_master level. This will
+sent the convert command on all devices on the bus, and if parasite
+powered devices are detected on the bus (and strong pullup is enable
+in the module), it will drive the line high during the longer conversion
+time required by parasited powered device on the line. Reading
+therm_bulk_read will return 0 if no bulk conversion pending,
+-1 if at least one sensor still in conversion, 1 if conversion is complete
+but at least one sensor value has not been read yet. Result temperature is
+then accessed by reading the temperature sysfs entry of each device, which
+may return empty if conversion is still in progress. Note that if a bulk
+read is sent but one sensor is not read immediately, the next access to
+temperature on this device will return the temperature measured at the
+time of issue of the bulk read command (not the current temperature).
Writing a value between 9 and 12 to the sysfs w1_slave file will change the
precision of the sensor for the next readings. This value is in (volatile)
@@ -49,6 +60,27 @@ To store the current precision configuration into EEPROM, the value 0
has to be written to the sysfs w1_slave file. Since the EEPROM has a limited
amount of writes (>50k), this command should be used wisely.
+Alternatively, resolution can be set or read (value from 9 to 12) using the
+dedicated resolution sysfs entry on each device. This sysfs entry is not
+present for devices not supporting this feature. Driver will adjust the
+correct conversion time for each device regarding to its resolution setting.
+In particular, strong pullup will be applied if required during the conversion
+duration.
+
+The write-only sysfs entry eeprom is an alternative for EEPROM operations:
+ * 'save': will save device RAM to EEPROM
+ * 'restore': will restore EEPROM data in device RAM.
+
+ext_power syfs entry allow tho check the power status of each device.
+ * '0': device parasite powered
+ * '1': device externally powered
+
+sysfs alarms allow read or write TH and TL (Temperature High an Low) alarms.
+Values shall be space separated and in the device range (typical -55 degC
+to 125 degC). Values are integer as they are store in a 8bit register in
+the device. Lowest value is automatically put to TL.Once set, alarms could
+be search at master level.
+
The module parameter strong_pullup can be set to 0 to disable the
strong pullup, 1 to enable autodetection or 2 to force strong pullup.
In case of autodetection, the driver will use the "READ POWER SUPPLY"