From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru (Evgeniy Polyakov) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:58:28 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] [0/6] New w1 features. Message-Id: <20050604015836.77d8ed94@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> List-Id: References: <20050604013008.05d3bc87@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050604013008.05d3bc87@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:46:48 -0500 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 6/3/05, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > 6. I wrote reconnect feature: if on start there are no > > registered families all new devices will have defailt family, > > later when driver for appropriate family is loaded, slaves, > > which were faound earlier, will still have defult family instead > > of right one. Reconnect feature will force control thread to > > run through all master devices and all slaves found > > and search for slaves with default family id and try to reconnect > > them. > > Yep, start with one kludge and you'll end up with 10 more. > > Would you mind explaining why a w1 device has to be bound to a family > before it can show in sysfs? We don't have such limitation on other > buses, why is it needed for w1? Because w1 device does not have any sence without appropriate family driver. You may have a device without a driver for it. All buses support it - see dmesg when new device was added but there is no driver for that - usb bus magically says slot is used. Here is the same. > -- > Dmitry Evgeniy Polyakov Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt