Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-25 Thread Sven Geggus
Alfille, Paul H.,M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was wondering if 1-wire may require some strange timing stuff which >> would suggest an in-kernel implementation rather than userspace. >> >> Not when connected to through the serial or USB adapters. A direct IO pin >> might be a different sto

RE: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-25 Thread Alfille, Paul H.,M.D.
I was wondering if 1-wire may require some strange timing stuff which would suggest an in-kernel implementation rather than userspace. Sven -- Not when connected to through the serial or USB adapters. A direct IO pin might be a different story, though that seems very hardware-specific. Paul -

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-25 Thread Sven Geggus
jerry scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll go farther than what Peter said. In my opinion, most "let's add it to > the kernel" ideas are misguided. My initial stand is always that if it > doesn't need to be in the kernel, it shouldn't be. Actually this is the Opinion of many Kernel-Hackers

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-25 Thread jerry scharf
--On 05/24/2005 03:39:59 PM + Sven Geggus wrote: Hi there, first of all I have note, that owfs is the best 1-wire Application I have seen on linux so far. Having used a patched Version of digitemp for my tcl/tk Application so far I was now able to suspend the patch and use the Tcl-Interfac

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-24 Thread Paul Alfille
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:16 pm, Peter Kropf wrote: > From my experience, the kernel drivers aren't worth the effort to try > to get working. Last time I looked at them, they were undocumented and > there was no user mode code / library / examples that used them. The > kernel drivers are also not c

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire driver in recent Kernels

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Kropf
>From my experience, the kernel drivers aren't worth the effort to try to get working. Last time I looked at them, they were undocumented and there was no user mode code / library / examples that used them. The kernel drivers are also not compatable with OWFS. My suggestion is to not load them int