[linux-dvb] Re: FE_SLEEP

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 17:16, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> 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.

It is already available to userspace by using close() on the frontend
file descriptor.

Regards,
Andreas