As many know, getting standardized dvb signal info in linux has been a want for a very long time for a lot of users (and developers). There has been several talks/threads about it but nothing was ever merged. The subject has come up once again and Mauro has posted a patch for review. I know that there are at least a handful of coders here who have interest in this, including Klaus. I strongly urge anyone who would like to see this finally happen to take a few minutes and read the links below. Further, it would be great if people actively participated in the discussion so please post anything you may like to contribute to the discussion!
The patch and discussion is available at:
"[PATCH RFCv3] dvb: Add DVBv5 properties for quality parameters"
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg56557.html