[linux-dvb] Re: FE_SLEEP

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

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
Just don't open the frontend device file descriptor.

Holger