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| author | Michael Krufky | 2011-10-31 12:12:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2011-11-07 16:19:51 +0100 |
| commit | 19661c08fe11590e04832ed8b3cabe5e4bf11e48 (patch) | |
| tree | d5b451a31eff23314ffc116000ddab2cd1c0c659 /drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c | |
| parent | [media] au8522: Calculate signal strength shown as percentage from SNR up to ... (diff) | |
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[media] s5h1409: Calculate signal strength shown as percentage from SNR up to 35dB
As done first in lgdt330x.c, calculate signal strength from SNR up to 35dB
Even though the SNR can go higher than 35dB, there is some comfort factor
in having a range of strong signals that can show at 100%
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c index 0e2f61a8978f..0d6d5e3e2c31 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1409.c @@ -879,7 +879,36 @@ static int s5h1409_read_snr(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u16 *snr) static int s5h1409_read_signal_strength(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u16 *signal_strength) { - return s5h1409_read_snr(fe, signal_strength); + /* borrowed from lgdt330x.c + * + * Calculate strength from SNR up to 35dB + * Even though the SNR can go higher than 35dB, + * there is some comfort factor in having a range of + * strong signals that can show at 100% + */ + u16 snr; + u32 tmp; + int ret = s5h1409_read_snr(fe, &snr); + + *signal_strength = 0; + + if (0 == ret) { + /* The following calculation method was chosen + * purely for the sake of code re-use from the + * other demod drivers that use this method */ + + /* Convert from SNR in dB * 10 to 8.24 fixed-point */ + tmp = (snr * ((1 << 24) / 10)); + + /* Convert from 8.24 fixed-point to + * scale the range 0 - 35*2^24 into 0 - 65535*/ + if (tmp >= 8960 * 0x10000) + *signal_strength = 0xffff; + else + *signal_strength = tmp / 8960; + } + + return ret; } static int s5h1409_read_ucblocks(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u32 *ucblocks) |