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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). | |
5 | ||
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. | |
8 | ||
9 | The w1 subsystem provides the framework for managing w1 masters and | |
10 | communication with slaves. | |
11 | ||
12 | All w1 slave devices must be connected to a w1 bus master device. | |
13 | ||
14 | Example w1 master devices: | |
15 | DS9490 usb device | |
16 | W1-over-GPIO | |
17 | DS2482 (i2c to w1 bridge) | |
18 | Emulated devices, such as a RS232 converter, parallel port adapter, etc | |
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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: | |
24 | ||
25 | - sysfs entries for that w1 master are created | |
26 | - the w1 bus is periodically searched for new slave devices | |
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28 | When a device is found on the bus, w1 core tries to load the driver for its family |
29 | and check if it is loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave. | |
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30 | If there is no driver for the family, default one is assigned, which allows to perform |
31 | almost any kind of operations. Each logical operation is a transaction | |
32 | in nature, which can contain several (two or one) low-level operations. | |
33 | Let's see how one can read EEPROM context: | |
34 | 1. one must write control buffer, i.e. buffer containing command byte | |
35 | and two byte address. At this step bus is reset and appropriate device | |
36 | is selected using either W1_SKIP_ROM or W1_MATCH_ROM command. | |
37 | Then provided control buffer is being written to the wire. | |
38 | 2. reading. This will issue reading eeprom response. | |
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40 | It is possible that between 1. and 2. w1 master thread will reset bus for searching | |
41 | and slave device will be even removed, but in this case 0xff will | |
42 | be read, since no device was selected. | |
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44 | ||
45 | W1 device families | |
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47 | Slave devices are handled by a driver written for a family of w1 devices. | |
48 | ||
49 | A family driver populates a struct w1_family_ops (see w1_family.h) and | |
50 | registers with the w1 subsystem. | |
51 | ||
52 | Current family drivers: | |
53 | w1_therm - (ds18?20 thermal sensor family driver) | |
54 | provides temperature reading function which is bound to ->rbin() method | |
55 | of the above w1_family_ops structure. | |
56 | ||
57 | w1_smem - driver for simple 64bit memory cell provides ID reading method. | |
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58 | |
59 | You can call above methods by reading appropriate sysfs files. | |
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62 | What does a w1 master driver need to implement? | |
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64 | ||
65 | The driver for w1 bus master must provide at minimum two functions. | |
66 | ||
67 | Emulated devices must provide the ability to set the output signal level | |
68 | (write_bit) and sample the signal level (read_bit). | |
69 | ||
70 | Devices that support the 1-wire natively must provide the ability to write and | |
71 | sample a bit (touch_bit) and reset the bus (reset_bus). | |
72 | ||
73 | Most hardware provides higher-level functions that offload w1 handling. | |
74 | See struct w1_bus_master definition in w1.h for details. | |
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76 | ||
77 | w1 master sysfs interface | |
78 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
d6f44b3b | 79 | <xx-xxxxxxxxxxxx> - A directory for a found device. The format is family-serial |
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80 | bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus |
81 | driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver | |
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82 | w1_master_add - (rw) manually register a slave device |
83 | w1_master_attempts - (ro) the number of times a search was attempted | |
4754639d | 84 | w1_master_max_slave_count |
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85 | - (rw) maximum number of slaves to search for at a time |
86 | w1_master_name - (ro) the name of the device (w1_bus_masterX) | |
87 | w1_master_pullup - (rw) 5V strong pullup 0 enabled, 1 disabled | |
88 | w1_master_remove - (rw) manually remove a slave device | |
89 | w1_master_search - (rw) the number of searches left to do, | |
90 | -1=continual (default) | |
4754639d | 91 | w1_master_slave_count |
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92 | - (ro) the number of slaves found |
93 | w1_master_slaves - (ro) the names of the slaves, one per line | |
94 | w1_master_timeout - (ro) the delay in seconds between searches | |
95 | w1_master_timeout_us | |
96 | - (ro) the delay in microseconds beetwen searches | |
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98 | If you have a w1 bus that never changes (you don't add or remove devices), | |
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99 | you can set the module parameter search_count to a small positive number |
100 | for an initially small number of bus searches. Alternatively it could be | |
101 | set to zero, then manually add the slave device serial numbers by | |
102 | w1_master_add device file. The w1_master_add and w1_master_remove files | |
103 | generally only make sense when searching is disabled, as a search will | |
104 | redetect manually removed devices that are present and timeout manually | |
105 | added devices that aren't on the bus. | |
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107 | Bus searches occur at an interval, specified as a summ of timeout and |
108 | timeout_us module parameters (either of which may be 0) for as long as | |
109 | w1_master_search remains greater than 0 or is -1. Each search attempt | |
110 | decrements w1_master_search by 1 (down to 0) and increments | |
111 | w1_master_attempts by 1. | |
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113 | w1 slave sysfs interface | |
114 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
115 | bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus | |
116 | driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver | |
117 | name - the device name, usually the same as the directory name | |
118 | w1_slave - (optional) a binary file whose meaning depends on the | |
119 | family driver | |
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120 | rw - (optional) created for slave devices which do not have |
121 | appropriate family driver. Allows to read/write binary data. |