2009/2/4 Martin Preuss <aquaman...@gmx.de>: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: >> 2009/2/3 Martin Preuss <aquaman...@gmx.de>: >> > 1) with pcscd all readers are always *on*. As soon as a reader is >> > connected it is started and polled for card insertion and removal even >> > when there is no client. I would very much like the pcscd to only power >> > up a reader if there is at least one client. This also serves as a nice >> > visual control (on my system I have reason to be suspicious if a reader >> > suddenly starts up unless I actually started a client myself). >> >> pcscd does not "power up [the] reader" but power up the _card_ even if >> no application is using this reader/card. Is that what you wanted to >> write? > [...] > > No, actually I meant the reader: Since the last few releases the Linux kernel > has the USB suspend feature. Some readers (like newer cyberjacks) support > this feature and and go into a low power consumption mode when USB suspend > kicks in. > > However, since pcscd always opens the reader and asks every second or so about > the card status this suspend mode never kicks in while pcscd is running.
OK. Added on the pcsc-lite TODO list. Thanks for the idea. -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
