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From: Maciej Szmigiero <mhej@o2.pl>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:53:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD06C22.20204@o2.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCEB42F.8000102@cam.ac.uk>

W dniu 01.11.2010 13:35, Jonathan Cameron pisze:
> On 10/28/10 21:52, Maciej Szmigiero wrote:
>> [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip
>>
>> This is a driver for DS2405 1-wire single-channel addressable switch / PIO.
>> DS2405 can also work as single-channel binary remote sensor.
> Perhaps handle this as a gpio chip? (be it a fairly limited one)
> To my mind it would make it more generally useful...

I think the GPIO infrastructure is meant for on-system GPIOs, where 1-wire devices are mostly 
used for remote data acquisition.
That's probably why w1_therm (for 1-wire thermometers) is not integrated with HWMON subsystem.

Maciej Szmigiero

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-28 20:52 [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip Maciej Szmigiero
2010-11-01 12:35 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-11-02 19:53   ` Maciej Szmigiero [this message]
2010-11-03 10:54     ` Ben Nizette
2010-11-04 20:01       ` Maciej Szmigiero
2010-11-04 21:16         ` Ben Nizette
2010-11-04 22:15           ` Maciej Szmigiero
2010-11-05  7:38             ` Ben Nizette

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