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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/query-dvb-frontend-info.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/query-dvb-frontend-info.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d854ccf42ccf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/query-dvb-frontend-info.rst @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, +.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software +.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts +.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at +.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. +.. +.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections + +.. _query-dvb-frontend-info: + +***************************** +Querying frontend information +***************************** + +Usually, the first thing to do when the frontend is opened is to check +the frontend capabilities. This is done using +:ref:`FE_GET_INFO`. This ioctl will enumerate the +Digital TV API version and other characteristics about the frontend, and can +be opened either in read only or read/write mode. |