[linux-dvb] Re: FE_SLEEP

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

On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 16:59, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I suppose so. Are there any advantages to allowing an explicit call from 
userspace?