From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f170.google.com ([209.85.192.170]:44783 "EHLO mail-pd0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751672AbaH2KpN (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:45:13 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id r10so187574pdi.1 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540059B5.8050100@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:45:09 +0900 From: Akihiro TSUKADA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antti Palosaari , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, m.chehab@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dvb-core: add a new tuner ops to dvb_frontend for APIv5 References: <1409153356-1887-1-git-send-email-tskd08@gmail.com> <1409153356-1887-2-git-send-email-tskd08@gmail.com> <53FE1EF5.5060007@iki.fi> <53FEF144.6060106@gmail.com> <53FFD1F0.9050306@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <53FFD1F0.9050306@iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: moikka, > Start polling thread, which polls once per 2 sec or so, which reads RSSI > and writes value to struct dtv_frontend_properties. That it is, in my > understanding. Same for all those DVBv5 stats. Mauro knows better as he > designed that functionality. I understand that RSSI property should be set directly in the tuner driver, but I'm afraid that creating a kthread just for updating RSSI would be overkill and complicate matters. Would you give me an advice? >> Mauro regards, akihiro