Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:33:22 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: Question: How to power-manage UART-attached devices. |
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:22:09AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> The question is how can user-space tell the kernel that these devices are > 'inactive'?
> I would like to integrate this into Linux in the most "natural" way that I > can but am having trouble. My current approach involves using "rfkill" but > that doesn't work very well for reasons that are probably not very relevant > here. It probably does make sense for powering the GPS antenna, but not > much else.
The userspace consumer was added for users like this that live entirely in userspace.
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