From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question: How to power-manage UART-attached devices.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:33:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120430223322.GA3951@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120501082209.0b560708@notabene.brown>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-30 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-30 22:22 Question: How to power-manage UART-attached devices NeilBrown
2012-04-30 22:33 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-30 23:35 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-01 16:33 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-01 23:15 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-02 9:02 ` Mark Brown
2012-04-30 22:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-01 0:12 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-30 23:47 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-30 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-01 0:27 ` NeilBrown
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