1.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 2.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, 3.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software 4.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts 5.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at 6.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. 7.. 8.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections 9 10.. _query-dvb-frontend-info: 11 12***************************** 13Querying frontend information 14***************************** 15 16Usually, the first thing to do when the frontend is opened is to check 17the frontend capabilities. This is done using 18:ref:`FE_GET_INFO`. This ioctl will enumerate the 19Digital TV API version and other characteristics about the frontend, and can 20be opened either in read only or read/write mode. 21