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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-07-08 11:40:06 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-07-08 11:59:40 -0300
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doc_rst: rename the media Sphinx suff to Documentation/media
The name of the subsystem is "media", and not "linux_tv". Also, as we plan to add other stuff there in the future, let's rename also the media uAPI book to media_uapi, to make it clearer. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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+.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
+
+.. _FE_READ_STATUS:
+
+********************
+ioctl FE_READ_STATUS
+********************
+
+Name
+====
+
+FE_READ_STATUS - Returns status information about the front-end. This call only requires - read-only access to the device
+
+
+Synopsis
+========
+
+.. cpp:function:: int ioctl( int fd, int request, unsigned int *status )
+
+
+Arguments
+=========
+
+``fd``
+ File descriptor returned by :ref:`open() <frontend_f_open>`.
+
+``request``
+ FE_READ_STATUS
+
+``status``
+ pointer to a bitmask integer filled with the values defined by enum
+ :ref:`fe_status <fe-status>`.
+
+
+Description
+===========
+
+All DVB frontend devices support the ``FE_READ_STATUS`` ioctl. It is
+used to check about the locking status of the frontend after being
+tuned. The ioctl takes a pointer to an integer where the status will be
+written.
+
+NOTE: the size of status is actually sizeof(enum fe_status), with
+varies according with the architecture. This needs to be fixed in the
+future.
+
+
+.. _fe-status-t:
+
+int fe_status
+=============
+
+The fe_status parameter is used to indicate the current state and/or
+state changes of the frontend hardware. It is produced using the enum
+:ref:`fe_status <fe-status>` values on a bitmask
+
+
+.. _fe-status:
+
+.. flat-table:: enum fe_status
+ :header-rows: 1
+ :stub-columns: 0
+
+
+ - .. row 1
+
+ - ID
+
+ - Description
+
+ - .. row 2
+
+ - .. _FE-HAS-SIGNAL:
+
+ ``FE_HAS_SIGNAL``
+
+ - The frontend has found something above the noise level
+
+ - .. row 3
+
+ - .. _FE-HAS-CARRIER:
+
+ ``FE_HAS_CARRIER``
+
+ - The frontend has found a DVB signal
+
+ - .. row 4
+
+ - .. _FE-HAS-VITERBI:
+
+ ``FE_HAS_VITERBI``
+
+ - The frontend FEC inner coding (Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code)
+ is stable
+
+ - .. row 5
+
+ - .. _FE-HAS-SYNC:
+
+ ``FE_HAS_SYNC``
+
+ - Synchronization bytes was found
+
+ - .. row 6
+
+ - .. _FE-HAS-LOCK:
+
+ ``FE_HAS_LOCK``
+
+ - The DVB were locked and everything is working
+
+ - .. row 7
+
+ - .. _FE-TIMEDOUT:
+
+ ``FE_TIMEDOUT``
+
+ - no lock within the last about 2 seconds
+
+ - .. row 8
+
+ - .. _FE-REINIT:
+
+ ``FE_REINIT``
+
+ - The frontend was reinitialized, application is recommended to
+ reset DiSEqC, tone and parameters
+
+
+Return Value
+============
+
+On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.