* it's being used for the legacy or new API, reducing code and complexity.
  */
 static void dtv_property_cache_sync(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
-                                   struct dvb_frontend_parameters *p)
+                                   struct dtv_frontend_properties *c,
+                                   const struct dvb_frontend_parameters *p)
 {
-       struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &fe->dtv_property_cache;
-
        c->frequency = p->frequency;
        c->inversion = p->inversion;
 
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 {
        const struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &fe->dtv_property_cache;
+       struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv;
+       struct dtv_frontend_properties cdetected;
        int r;
 
+       /*
+        * If the driver implements a get_frontend function, then convert
+        * detected parameters to S2API properties.
+        */
+       if (fe->ops.get_frontend) {
+               cdetected = *c;
+               dtv_property_cache_sync(fe, &cdetected, &fepriv->parameters_out);
+               c = &cdetected;
+       }
+
        switch(tvp->cmd) {
        case DTV_FREQUENCY:
                tvp->u.data = c->frequency;
 
                        memcpy (&fepriv->parameters_in, parg,
                                sizeof (struct dvb_frontend_parameters));
-                       dtv_property_cache_sync(fe, &fepriv->parameters_in);
+                       dtv_property_cache_sync(fe, c, &fepriv->parameters_in);
                }
 
                memset(&fetunesettings, 0, sizeof(struct dvb_frontend_tune_settings));