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authorDavid Fries <david@fries.net>2008-10-15 22:04:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:50 -0700
commiteba3b06da4bd8b79fe6c8ed922a319362c1a40c0 (patch)
treef6463a23555b02150839c840292b99838fb936a3 /Documentation/w1
parent9141f57c7edd40a48a41b7e31427c4b2831a36af (diff)
W1: Document add, remove, search_count, and pullup.
Document w1_master_add, w1_master_remove, search_count, and pullup. Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/w1.generic11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic
index 4c6509dd4789..e3333eec4320 100644
--- a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic
+++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic
@@ -79,10 +79,13 @@ w1 master sysfs interface
<xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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