Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/22] W1: sysfs, lifetime and other fixes

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 11:11:24 EST


One more thing...

On 4/21/05, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > w1-master-drop-attrs.patch
> > Get rid of unneeded master device attributes:
> > - 'pointer' and 'attempts' are meaningless for userspace;
> > - information provided by 'slaves' and 'slave_count' can be gathered
> > from other sysfs bits;
> > - w1_slave_found has to be rearranged now that slave_count field is gone.
>
> attempts is usefull for broken lines.

It simply increments with every search i.e. every 10 secondsby default
and does not provide indication of the quality of the wire.

--
Dmitry
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