linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/fe-get-property.rst
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 54f38fcae5 media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/media
Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API,
created by changeset 1d596dee38 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide").

As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use
Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate
place.

Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether
will likely make things easier for developers.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-14 10:31:49 +02:00

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.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
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.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
.. _FE_GET_PROPERTY:
**************************************
ioctl FE_SET_PROPERTY, FE_GET_PROPERTY
**************************************
Name
====
FE_SET_PROPERTY - FE_GET_PROPERTY - FE_SET_PROPERTY sets one or more frontend properties. - FE_GET_PROPERTY returns one or more frontend properties.
Synopsis
========
.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, FE_GET_PROPERTY, struct dtv_properties *argp )
:name: FE_GET_PROPERTY
.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, FE_SET_PROPERTY, struct dtv_properties *argp )
:name: FE_SET_PROPERTY
Arguments
=========
``fd``
File descriptor returned by :ref:`open() <frontend_f_open>`.
``argp``
Pointer to struct :c:type:`dtv_properties`.
Description
===========
All Digital TV frontend devices support the ``FE_SET_PROPERTY`` and
``FE_GET_PROPERTY`` ioctls. The supported properties and statistics
depends on the delivery system and on the device:
- ``FE_SET_PROPERTY:``
- This ioctl is used to set one or more frontend properties.
- This is the basic command to request the frontend to tune into
some frequency and to start decoding the digital TV signal.
- This call requires read/write access to the device.
.. note::
At return, the values aren't updated to reflect the actual
parameters used. If the actual parameters are needed, an explicit
call to ``FE_GET_PROPERTY`` is needed.
- ``FE_GET_PROPERTY:``
- This ioctl is used to get properties and statistics from the
frontend.
- No properties are changed, and statistics aren't reset.
- This call only requires read-only access to the device.
Return Value
============
On success 0 is returned.
On error -1 is returned, and the ``errno`` variable is set
appropriately.
Generic error codes are described at the
:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.