Moikka!, thanks for the comments and advices. I had been updating my code and during that, I also found that updating property cache in tuner_ops.get_signal_strength() was simple and (seemed to me) better than using a kthread, so the current implementation (under testing) is just like what Mauro proposed, but, > In time: not implementing its own thread has one drawback: the driver needs > to check if the minimal time needed to get a new stats were already archived. since I don't know the minimal time and whether there's a limit in the first place, I'd like to let users take the responsibility. >> ... I simply don't understand why you want hook that RF strength call >> via demod? The frontend cache is shared between demod and tuner. We use >> it for tuner drivr as well demod driver. Let the tuner driver make RSSI >> calculation independently without any unneeded relation to demod driver. I think the main reason for the hook is because the dvb-core calls ops.get_frontend() everytime before reading of any property cache, so it is already a nice place to trigger property updates, and reading any property involves demod (FE as a whole) anyway. regards, akihiro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html