ds2482_select_register(9)

✨ ds2482_select_register(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

Okay so this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is ds2482_select_register 💖 — a lil function whose whole job is setting the read pointer. That's it. That's the vibe. She's simple, she's iconic, she points at reads. Periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ds2482_select_register — literally just sets the read pointer 🎯

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ds2482_select_register (struct ds2482_data *pdev , u8 read_ptr );

Returns an int, takes a struct ds2482_data *pdev and a u8 read_ptr. Signature stays exactly like that, no cap 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the ds2482 client pointer 👑 like, this is your device, your main character, you hand her over.
• read_ptr — see DS2482_PTR_CODE_xxx above, bestie 💅 the pointer code constants live up there, go look, iykyk.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• -1 on failure 💀 (it happens, we don't talk about it)
• 0 on success ✨ slay

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c — go read the source, she's gorgeous 🔥

And the whole friend group, fr fr:

• ds2482_calculate_config(9)
• ds2482_send_cmd(9)
• ds2482_send_cmd_data(9)
• ds2482_wait_1wire_idle(9)
• ds2482_set_channel(9)
• ds2482_w1_touch_bit(9)
• ds2482_w1_triplet(9)
• ds2482_w1_write_byte(9)
• ds2482_w1_read_byte(9)
• ds2482_w1_reset_bus(9)

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🧚 lowkey a reminder: the read_ptr values are the DS2482_PTR_CODE_xxx ones from above — don't be out here inventing your own numbers, bestie 😭

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okay that's the whole page!! 🍓 this lil gem hangs out in ./drivers/w1/masters, dated October 2026, and yes the title is still ds2482_select_register(9) because she's not changing for anyone 💜 mwah, go set some read pointers 🫶✨