On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc_n...@merlins.org> wrote:
> In powered mode, an average of 10 uncached reads took 0.95s for 12 bits
> In parasite, it took 1.35 sec for 12 bits.

OWFS does some polling of the device and sees if is ready for reading.
I suspect that is the difference in timing.
>
> I expected the difference to be bigger but I guess not.
>
> But is owfs able to know which devices are powered and send requests in
> parrallel to them and get the answer 1 sec later of all of them at once,
> while doing parasite ones serially later, or does it just treat them all the
> same?
>
> And just to confirm, it owfs does know if an individual device is
> powered, does it not?
>

Only by asking the device. If just having a floating VDD tricks the
chip into thinking it's powered, then OWFS doesn't know any different.
Nor do we keep (useful) information from the user.

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