V4L/DVB (11063): au8522: power down the digital demod when not in use
authorDevin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@linuxtv.org>
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:00:34 +0000 (03:00 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:43:24 +0000 (12:43 -0300)
When the au8522 is idle, put the chip into a low power mode (reduces power
consumption from 450ma to 346ma)

Thanks to Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> and Steven Toth
<stoth@linuxtv.org> for providing sample hardware, engineering level support,
and testing.

Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/au8522_dig.c

index 17bdbe2c67e6cd484f6d9ae52c8e5b62cca64bfd..fa3ecbed1e586278254a19555407c62a2c11eaeb 100644 (file)
@@ -617,6 +617,9 @@ int au8522_sleep(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
        /* turn off led */
        au8522_led_ctrl(state, 0);
 
+       /* Power down the chip */
+       au8522_writereg(state, 0xa4, 1 << 5);
+
        state->current_frequency = 0;
 
        return 0;