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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html