| .. 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 |
| |
| .. _FE_READ_BER: |
| |
| *********** |
| FE_READ_BER |
| *********** |
| |
| Name |
| ==== |
| |
| FE_READ_BER |
| |
| .. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated. |
| |
| Synopsis |
| ======== |
| |
| .. c:function:: int ioctl(int fd, FE_READ_BER, uint32_t *ber) |
| :name: FE_READ_BER |
| |
| |
| Arguments |
| ========= |
| |
| ``fd`` |
| File descriptor returned by :c:func:`open() <dvb-fe-open>`. |
| |
| ``ber`` |
| The bit error rate is stored into \*ber. |
| |
| |
| Description |
| =========== |
| |
| This ioctl call returns the bit error rate for the signal currently |
| received/demodulated by the front-end. For this command, read-only |
| access to the device is sufficient. |
| |
| |
| 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. |
