[linux-dvb] Re: FE_SLEEP

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 11:35, Guido Fiala wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:24, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > Is FE_SLEEP meant to be exposed to userspace? I notice there's support to
> > handle it in dvb_frontend.c/dvb_frontend_ioctl(), which would imply it
> > is. However, at the moment it is defined in the private internal header,
> > dvb_frontend.h.
>
> At least it would be nice if it is exposed for users which do signal-less
> operations on certain cards which tend to look up if the tuner is not shut
> down properly (for the same cards it would be a good thing to shut the the
> tuner if the signal is not detected anymore and just try in intervals again
> by the user-ware, of course the driver could also be so intelligent...)

Yeah - I think it should be available. Moving it to frontend.h will require 
changing its IOCTL number to be strictly correct. Will this cause problems 
with binary/closed source drivers? 

I can do it so that there's an FE_SLEEP_DEPRECATED as well with the old number 
for back compatability, but I'd prefer not to if possible.