Re: [PATCH] w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed May 09 2012 - 18:24:09 EST



A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Markus Franke wrote:
> Dear Greg,
>
> the file "pio" is used for reading the current PIO state of the
> DS28E04-100.

Why is this a binary file? That seems like it should not be, as a
binary sysfs file should be "pass-through" only.

> The "eeprom" file is for reading/writing the EEPROM memory of the same
> device.

That seems ok.

> As already mentioned before this is exactly the way how other w1 slave
> drivers are handling stuff like this.

Then those drivers are wrong as well, sorry :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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