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On 27.12.2011 18:26, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> One usage of such call would be to retrieve the autodetected properties,
> after having a frontend lock.

Btw., dvb_frontend already refreshes the cache whenever the lock status
changes, i.e. when generating frontend events.