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+<refentry id="FE_READ_STATUS">
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>ioctl FE_READ_STATUS</refentrytitle>
+    &manvol;
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>FE_READ_STATUS</refname>
+    <refpurpose>Returns status information about the front-end. This call only
+ requires read-only access to the device</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <funcsynopsis>
+      <funcprototype>
+	<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
+	<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
+	<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
+	<paramdef>unsigned int *<parameter>status</parameter></paramdef>
+      </funcprototype>
+    </funcsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Arguments</title>
+        <variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+	<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&fe_fd;</para>
+	</listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+	<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>FE_READ_STATUS</para>
+	</listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+	<term><parameter>status</parameter></term>
+	<listitem>
+	    <para>pointer to a bitmask integer filled with the values defined by
+		&fe-status;.</para>
+	</listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>All DVB frontend devices support the
+<constant>FE_READ_STATUS</constant> 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.
+</para>
+<para>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.</para>
+&return-value-dvb;
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1 id="fe-status-t">
+<title>int fe_status</title>
+
+<para>The fe_status parameter is used to indicate the current state
+    and/or state changes of the frontend hardware. It is produced using
+    the &fe-status; values on a bitmask</para>
+
+<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="fe-status">
+    <title>enum fe_status</title>
+    <tgroup cols="2">
+	&cs-def;
+	<thead>
+	<row>
+	    <entry>ID</entry>
+	    <entry>Description</entry>
+	</row>
+	</thead>
+	<tbody valign="top">
+	<row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-HAS-SIGNAL"><constant>FE_HAS_SIGNAL</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">The frontend has found something above the noise level</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-HAS-CARRIER"><constant>FE_HAS_CARRIER</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">The frontend has found a DVB signal</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-HAS-VITERBI"><constant>FE_HAS_VITERBI</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">The frontend FEC inner coding (Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code) is stable</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-HAS-SYNC"><constant>FE_HAS_SYNC</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">Synchronization bytes was found</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-HAS-LOCK"><constant>FE_HAS_LOCK</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">The DVB were locked and everything is working</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-TIMEDOUT"><constant>FE_TIMEDOUT</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">no lock within the last about 2 seconds</entry>
+	</row><row>
+	    <entry align="char" id="FE-REINIT"><constant>FE_REINIT</constant></entry>
+	    <entry align="char">The frontend was reinitialized, application is
+	    recommended to reset DiSEqC, tone and parameters</entry>
+	</row>
+        </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+</table>
+</refsect1>
+</refentry>