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-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/00-INDEX10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/ds248231
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/ds249070
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/mxc-w112
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/omap-hdq46
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/w1-gpio33
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/slaves/00-INDEX6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds242347
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm41
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/w1.generic113
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/w1.netlink186
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diff --git a/Documentation/w1/00-INDEX b/Documentation/w1/00-INDEX
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index 00000000..cb498027
--- /dev/null
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+00-INDEX
+ - This file
+slaves/
+ - Drivers that provide support for specific family codes.
+masters/
+ - Individual chips providing 1-wire busses.
+w1.generic
+ - The 1-wire (w1) bus
+w1.netlink
+ - Userspace communication protocol over connector [1].
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX b/Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d63fa024
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+00-INDEX
+ - This file
+ds2482
+ - The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor DS2482 provides 1-wire busses.
+ds2490
+ - The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor DS2490 builds USB <-> W1 bridges.
+mxc_w1
+ - W1 master controller driver found on Freescale MX2/MX3 SoCs
+w1-gpio
+ - GPIO 1-wire bus master driver.
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482 b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..56f8edac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Kernel driver ds2482
+====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Maxim DS2482-100, Maxim DS2482-800
+ Prefix: 'ds2482'
+ Addresses scanned: None
+ Datasheets:
+ http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/DS2482-100.pdf
+ http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/DS2482-800.pdf
+
+Author: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor DS2482 is a I2C device that provides
+one (DS2482-100) or eight (DS2482-800) 1-wire busses.
+
+
+General Remarks
+---------------
+
+Valid addresses are 0x18, 0x19, 0x1a, and 0x1b.
+However, the device cannot be detected without writing to the i2c bus, so no
+detection is done. You should instantiate the device explicitly.
+
+$ modprobe ds2482
+$ echo ds2482 0x18 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
+
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2490 b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2490
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28176def
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2490
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+Kernel driver ds2490
+====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Maxim DS2490 based
+
+Author: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor DS2490 is a chip
+which allows to build USB <-> W1 bridges.
+
+DS9490(R) is a USB <-> W1 bus master device
+which has 0x81 family ID integrated chip and DS2490
+low-level operational chip.
+
+Notes and limitations.
+- The weak pullup current is a minimum of 0.9mA and maximum of 6.0mA.
+- The 5V strong pullup is supported with a minimum of 5.9mA and a
+ maximum of 30.4 mA. (From DS2490.pdf)
+- While the ds2490 supports a hardware search the code doesn't take
+ advantage of it (in tested case it only returned first device).
+- The hardware will detect when devices are attached to the bus on the
+ next bus (reset?) operation, however only a message is printed as
+ the core w1 code doesn't make use of the information. Connecting
+ one device tends to give multiple new device notifications.
+- The number of USB bus transactions could be reduced if w1_reset_send
+ was added to the API. The name is just a suggestion. It would take
+ a write buffer and a read buffer (along with sizes) as arguments.
+ The ds2490 block I/O command supports reset, write buffer, read
+ buffer, and strong pullup all in one command, instead of the current
+ 1 reset bus, 2 write the match rom command and slave rom id, 3 block
+ write and read data. The write buffer needs to have the match rom
+ command and slave rom id prepended to the front of the requested
+ write buffer, both of which are known to the driver.
+- The hardware supports normal, flexible, and overdrive bus
+ communication speeds, but only the normal is supported.
+- The registered w1_bus_master functions don't define error
+ conditions. If a bus search is in progress and the ds2490 is
+ removed it can produce a good amount of error output before the bus
+ search finishes.
+- The hardware supports detecting some error conditions, such as
+ short, alarming presence on reset, and no presence on reset, but the
+ driver doesn't query those values.
+- The ds2490 specification doesn't cover short bulk in reads in
+ detail, but my observation is if fewer bytes are requested than are
+ available, the bulk read will return an error and the hardware will
+ clear the entire bulk in buffer. It would be possible to read the
+ maximum buffer size to not run into this error condition, only extra
+ bytes in the buffer is a logic error in the driver. The code should
+ should match reads and writes as well as data sizes. Reads and
+ writes are serialized and the status verifies that the chip is idle
+ (and data is available) before the read is executed, so it should
+ not happen.
+- Running x86_64 2.6.24 UHCI under qemu 0.9.0 under x86_64 2.6.22-rc6
+ with a OHCI controller, ds2490 running in the guest would operate
+ normally the first time the module was loaded after qemu attached
+ the ds2490 hardware, but if the module was unloaded, then reloaded
+ most of the time one of the bulk out or in, and usually the bulk in
+ would fail. qemu sets a 50ms timeout and the bulk in would timeout
+ even when the status shows data available. A bulk out write would
+ show a successful completion, but the ds2490 status register would
+ show 0 bytes written. Detaching qemu from the ds2490 hardware and
+ reattaching would clear the problem. usbmon output in the guest and
+ host did not explain the problem. My guess is a bug in either qemu
+ or the host OS and more likely the host OS.
+-- 03-06-2008 David Fries <David@Fries.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/mxc-w1 b/Documentation/w1/masters/mxc-w1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38be1ad6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/mxc-w1
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Kernel driver mxc_w1
+====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Freescale MX27, MX31 and probably other i.MX SoCs
+ Datasheets:
+ http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/data_sheet/MCIMX31.pdf?fpsp=1
+ http://cache.freescale.com/files/dsp/doc/archive/MCIMX27.pdf?fsrch=1&WT_TYPE=
+ Data%20Sheets&WT_VENDOR=FREESCALE&WT_FILE_FORMAT=pdf&WT_ASSET=Documentation
+
+Author: Originally based on Freescale code, prepared for mainline by
+ Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/omap-hdq b/Documentation/w1/masters/omap-hdq
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..884dc284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/omap-hdq
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+Kernel driver for omap HDQ/1-wire module.
+========================================
+
+Supported chips:
+================
+ HDQ/1-wire controller on the TI OMAP 2430/3430 platforms.
+
+A useful link about HDQ basics:
+===============================
+http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slua408a/slua408a.pdf
+
+Description:
+============
+The HDQ/1-Wire module of TI OMAP2430/3430 platforms implement the hardware
+protocol of the master functions of the Benchmark HDQ and the Dallas
+Semiconductor 1-Wire protocols. These protocols use a single wire for
+communication between the master (HDQ/1-Wire controller) and the slave
+(HDQ/1-Wire external compliant device).
+
+A typical application of the HDQ/1-Wire module is the communication with battery
+monitor (gas gauge) integrated circuits.
+
+The controller supports operation in both HDQ and 1-wire mode. The essential
+difference between the HDQ and 1-wire mode is how the slave device responds to
+initialization pulse.In HDQ mode, the firmware does not require the host to
+create an initialization pulse to the slave.However, the slave can be reset by
+using an initialization pulse (also referred to as a break pulse).The slave
+does not respond with a presence pulse as it does in the 1-Wire protocol.
+
+Remarks:
+========
+The driver (drivers/w1/masters/omap_hdq.c) supports the HDQ mode of the
+controller. In this mode, as we can not read the ID which obeys the W1
+spec(family:id:crc), a module parameter can be passed to the driver which will
+be used to calculate the CRC and pass back an appropriate slave ID to the W1
+core.
+
+By default the master driver and the BQ slave i/f
+driver(drivers/w1/slaves/w1_bq27000.c) sets the ID to 1.
+Please note to load both the modules with a different ID if required, but note
+that the ID used should be same for both master and slave driver loading.
+
+e.g:
+insmod omap_hdq.ko W1_ID=2
+inamod w1_bq27000.ko F_ID=2
+
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/w1-gpio b/Documentation/w1/masters/w1-gpio
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af5d3b4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/w1-gpio
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Kernel driver w1-gpio
+=====================
+
+Author: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+GPIO 1-wire bus master driver. The driver uses the GPIO API to control the
+wire and the GPIO pin can be specified using platform data.
+
+
+Example (mach-at91)
+-------------------
+
+#include <linux/w1-gpio.h>
+
+static struct w1_gpio_platform_data foo_w1_gpio_pdata = {
+ .pin = AT91_PIN_PB20,
+ .is_open_drain = 1,
+};
+
+static struct platform_device foo_w1_device = {
+ .name = "w1-gpio",
+ .id = -1,
+ .dev.platform_data = &foo_w1_gpio_pdata,
+};
+
+...
+ at91_set_GPIO_periph(foo_w1_gpio_pdata.pin, 1);
+ at91_set_multi_drive(foo_w1_gpio_pdata.pin, 1);
+ platform_device_register(&foo_w1_device);
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/00-INDEX b/Documentation/w1/slaves/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75613c9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+00-INDEX
+ - This file
+w1_therm
+ - The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor ds18*20 temperature sensor.
+w1_ds2423
+ - The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor ds2423 counter device.
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds2423 b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds2423
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f98b505
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds2423
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+Kernel driver w1_ds2423
+=======================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Maxim DS2423 based counter devices.
+
+supported family codes:
+ W1_THERM_DS2423 0x1D
+
+Author: Mika Laitio <lamikr@pilppa.org>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+Support is provided through the sysfs w1_slave file. Each opening and
+read sequence of w1_slave file initiates the read of counters and ram
+available in DS2423 pages 12 - 15.
+
+Result of each page is provided as an ASCII output where each counter
+value and associated ram buffer is outpputed to own line.
+
+Each lines will contain the values of 42 bytes read from the counter and
+memory page along the crc=YES or NO for indicating whether the read operation
+was successful and CRC matched.
+If the operation was successful, there is also in the end of each line
+a counter value expressed as an integer after c=
+
+Meaning of 42 bytes represented is following:
+ - 1 byte from ram page
+ - 4 bytes for the counter value
+ - 4 zero bytes
+ - 2 bytes for crc16 which was calculated from the data read since the previous crc bytes
+ - 31 remaining bytes from the ram page
+ - crc=YES/NO indicating whether read was ok and crc matched
+ - c=<int> current counter value
+
+example from the successful read:
+00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6d 38 00 ff ff 00 00 fe ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=YES c=2
+00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 1f 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=YES c=2
+00 29 c6 5d 18 00 00 00 00 04 37 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=YES c=408798761
+00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8d 39 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff crc=YES c=5
+
+example from the read with crc errors:
+00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6d 38 00 ff ff 00 00 fe ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=YES c=2
+00 02 00 00 22 00 00 00 00 e0 1f 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=NO
+00 e1 61 5d 19 00 00 00 00 df 0b 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff crc=NO
+00 05 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 8d 39 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff crc=NO
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0403aaab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Kernel driver w1_therm
+====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Maxim ds18*20 based temperature sensors.
+
+Author: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+w1_therm provides basic temperature conversion for ds18*20 devices.
+supported family codes:
+W1_THERM_DS18S20 0x10
+W1_THERM_DS1822 0x22
+W1_THERM_DS18B20 0x28
+
+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
+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
+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).
+
+The module parameter strong_pullup can be set to 0 to disable the
+strong pullup or 1 to enable. If enabled the 5V strong pullup will be
+enabled when the conversion is taking place provided the master driver
+must support the strong pullup (or it falls back to a pullup
+resistor). The DS18b20 temperature sensor specification lists a
+maximum current draw of 1.5mA and that a 5k pullup resistor is not
+sufficient. The strong pullup is designed to provide the additional
+current required.
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..212f4ac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+The 1-wire (w1) subsystem
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+The 1-wire bus is a simple master-slave bus that communicates via a single
+signal wire (plus ground, so two wires).
+
+Devices communicate on the bus by pulling the signal to ground via an open
+drain output and by sampling the logic level of the signal line.
+
+The w1 subsystem provides the framework for managing w1 masters and
+communication with slaves.
+
+All w1 slave devices must be connected to a w1 bus master device.
+
+Example w1 master devices:
+ DS9490 usb device
+ W1-over-GPIO
+ DS2482 (i2c to w1 bridge)
+ Emulated devices, such as a RS232 converter, parallel port adapter, etc
+
+
+What does the w1 subsystem do?
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+When a w1 master driver registers with the w1 subsystem, the following occurs:
+
+ - sysfs entries for that w1 master are created
+ - the w1 bus is periodically searched for new slave devices
+
+When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for its family is
+loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave.
+If there is no driver for the family, default one is assigned, which allows to perform
+almost any kind of operations. Each logical operation is a transaction
+in nature, which can contain several (two or one) low-level operations.
+Let's see how one can read EEPROM context:
+1. one must write control buffer, i.e. buffer containing command byte
+and two byte address. At this step bus is reset and appropriate device
+is selected using either W1_SKIP_ROM or W1_MATCH_ROM command.
+Then provided control buffer is being written to the wire.
+2. reading. This will issue reading eeprom response.
+
+It is possible that between 1. and 2. w1 master thread will reset bus for searching
+and slave device will be even removed, but in this case 0xff will
+be read, since no device was selected.
+
+
+W1 device families
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+Slave devices are handled by a driver written for a family of w1 devices.
+
+A family driver populates a struct w1_family_ops (see w1_family.h) and
+registers with the w1 subsystem.
+
+Current family drivers:
+w1_therm - (ds18?20 thermal sensor family driver)
+ provides temperature reading function which is bound to ->rbin() method
+ of the above w1_family_ops structure.
+
+w1_smem - driver for simple 64bit memory cell provides ID reading method.
+
+You can call above methods by reading appropriate sysfs files.
+
+
+What does a w1 master driver need to implement?
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The driver for w1 bus master must provide at minimum two functions.
+
+Emulated devices must provide the ability to set the output signal level
+(write_bit) and sample the signal level (read_bit).
+
+Devices that support the 1-wire natively must provide the ability to write and
+sample a bit (touch_bit) and reset the bus (reset_bus).
+
+Most hardware provides higher-level functions that offload w1 handling.
+See struct w1_bus_master definition in w1.h for details.
+
+
+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
+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 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
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+bus - (standard) symlink to the w1 bus
+driver - (standard) symlink to the w1 driver
+name - the device name, usually the same as the directory name
+w1_slave - (optional) a binary file whose meaning depends on the
+ family driver
+rw - (optional) created for slave devices which do not have
+ appropriate family driver. Allows to read/write binary data.
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.netlink b/Documentation/w1/w1.netlink
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f59a3196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.netlink
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+Userspace communication protocol over connector [1].
+
+
+Message types.
+=============
+
+There are three types of messages between w1 core and userspace:
+1. Events. They are generated each time new master or slave device
+ found either due to automatic or requested search.
+2. Userspace commands.
+3. Replies to userspace commands.
+
+
+Protocol.
+========
+
+[struct cn_msg] - connector header.
+ Its length field is equal to size of the attached data
+[struct w1_netlink_msg] - w1 netlink header.
+ __u8 type - message type.
+ W1_LIST_MASTERS
+ list current bus masters
+ W1_SLAVE_ADD/W1_SLAVE_REMOVE
+ slave add/remove events
+ W1_MASTER_ADD/W1_MASTER_REMOVE
+ master add/remove events
+ W1_MASTER_CMD
+ userspace command for bus master
+ device (search/alarm search)
+ W1_SLAVE_CMD
+ userspace command for slave device
+ (read/write/touch)
+ __u8 res - reserved
+ __u16 len - size of data attached to this header data
+ union {
+ __u8 id[8]; - slave unique device id
+ struct w1_mst {
+ __u32 id; - master's id
+ __u32 res; - reserved
+ } mst;
+ } id;
+
+[struct w1_netlink_cmd] - command for given master or slave device.
+ __u8 cmd - command opcode.
+ W1_CMD_READ - read command
+ W1_CMD_WRITE - write command
+ W1_CMD_TOUCH - touch command
+ (write and sample data back to userspace)
+ W1_CMD_SEARCH - search command
+ W1_CMD_ALARM_SEARCH - alarm search command
+ __u8 res - reserved
+ __u16 len - length of data for this command
+ For read command data must be allocated like for write command
+ __u8 data[0] - data for this command
+
+
+Each connector message can include one or more w1_netlink_msg with
+zero or more attached w1_netlink_cmd messages.
+
+For event messages there are no w1_netlink_cmd embedded structures,
+only connector header and w1_netlink_msg strucutre with "len" field
+being zero and filled type (one of event types) and id:
+either 8 bytes of slave unique id in host order,
+or master's id, which is assigned to bus master device
+when it is added to w1 core.
+
+Currently replies to userspace commands are only generated for read
+command request. One reply is generated exactly for one w1_netlink_cmd
+read request. Replies are not combined when sent - i.e. typical reply
+messages looks like the following:
+
+[cn_msg][w1_netlink_msg][w1_netlink_cmd]
+cn_msg.len = sizeof(struct w1_netlink_msg) +
+ sizeof(struct w1_netlink_cmd) +
+ cmd->len;
+w1_netlink_msg.len = sizeof(struct w1_netlink_cmd) + cmd->len;
+w1_netlink_cmd.len = cmd->len;
+
+Replies to W1_LIST_MASTERS should send a message back to the userspace
+which will contain list of all registered master ids in the following
+format:
+
+ cn_msg (CN_W1_IDX.CN_W1_VAL as id, len is equal to sizeof(struct
+ w1_netlink_msg) plus number of masters multiplied by 4)
+ w1_netlink_msg (type: W1_LIST_MASTERS, len is equal to
+ number of masters multiplied by 4 (u32 size))
+ id0 ... idN
+
+ Each message is at most 4k in size, so if number of master devices
+ exceeds this, it will be split into several messages,
+ cn.seq will be increased for each one.
+
+W1 search and alarm search commands.
+request:
+[cn_msg]
+ [w1_netlink_msg type = W1_MASTER_CMD
+ id is equal to the bus master id to use for searching]
+ [w1_netlink_cmd cmd = W1_CMD_SEARCH or W1_CMD_ALARM_SEARCH]
+
+reply:
+ [cn_msg, ack = 1 and increasing, 0 means the last message,
+ seq is equal to the request seq]
+ [w1_netlink_msg type = W1_MASTER_CMD]
+ [w1_netlink_cmd cmd = W1_CMD_SEARCH or W1_CMD_ALARM_SEARCH
+ len is equal to number of IDs multiplied by 8]
+ [64bit-id0 ... 64bit-idN]
+Length in each header corresponds to the size of the data behind it, so
+w1_netlink_cmd->len = N * 8; where N is number of IDs in this message.
+ Can be zero.
+w1_netlink_msg->len = sizeof(struct w1_netlink_cmd) + N * 8;
+cn_msg->len = sizeof(struct w1_netlink_msg) +
+ sizeof(struct w1_netlink_cmd) +
+ N*8;
+
+W1 reset command.
+[cn_msg]
+ [w1_netlink_msg type = W1_MASTER_CMD
+ id is equal to the bus master id to use for searching]
+ [w1_netlink_cmd cmd = W1_CMD_RESET]
+
+
+Command status replies.
+======================
+
+Each command (either root, master or slave with or without w1_netlink_cmd
+structure) will be 'acked' by the w1 core. Format of the reply is the same
+as request message except that length parameters do not account for data
+requested by the user, i.e. read/write/touch IO requests will not contain
+data, so w1_netlink_cmd.len will be 0, w1_netlink_msg.len will be size
+of the w1_netlink_cmd structure and cn_msg.len will be equal to the sum
+of the sizeof(struct w1_netlink_msg) and sizeof(struct w1_netlink_cmd).
+If reply is generated for master or root command (which do not have
+w1_netlink_cmd attached), reply will contain only cn_msg and w1_netlink_msg
+structires.
+
+w1_netlink_msg.status field will carry positive error value
+(EINVAL for example) or zero in case of success.
+
+All other fields in every structure will mirror the same parameters in the
+request message (except lengths as described above).
+
+Status reply is generated for every w1_netlink_cmd embedded in the
+w1_netlink_msg, if there are no w1_netlink_cmd structures,
+reply will be generated for the w1_netlink_msg.
+
+All w1_netlink_cmd command structures are handled in every w1_netlink_msg,
+even if there were errors, only length mismatch interrupts message processing.
+
+
+Operation steps in w1 core when new command is received.
+=======================================================
+
+When new message (w1_netlink_msg) is received w1 core detects if it is
+master or slave request, according to w1_netlink_msg.type field.
+Then master or slave device is searched for.
+When found, master device (requested or those one on where slave device
+is found) is locked. If slave command is requested, then reset/select
+procedure is started to select given device.
+
+Then all requested in w1_netlink_msg operations are performed one by one.
+If command requires reply (like read command) it is sent on command completion.
+
+When all commands (w1_netlink_cmd) are processed muster device is unlocked
+and next w1_netlink_msg header processing started.
+
+
+Connector [1] specific documentation.
+====================================
+
+Each connector message includes two u32 fields as "address".
+w1 uses CN_W1_IDX and CN_W1_VAL defined in include/linux/connector.h header.
+Each message also includes sequence and acknowledge numbers.
+Sequence number for event messages is appropriate bus master sequence number
+increased with each event message sent "through" this master.
+Sequence number for userspace requests is set by userspace application.
+Sequence number for reply is the same as was in request, and
+acknowledge number is set to seq+1.
+
+
+Additional documantion, source code examples.
+============================================
+
+1. Documentation/connector
+2. http://www.ioremap.net/archive/w1
+This archive includes userspace application w1d.c which uses
+read/write/search commands for all master/slave devices found on the bus.