Re: [PATCH] NFC: Driver for Inside Secure MicroRead NFC chip

[Samuel Ortiz]

Hi Waldemar,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:42:21PM +0300, Waldemar.Rymarkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >My idea of an initial NFC subsystem architecture was actually 
> >the following
> >one:
> >- A core NFC layer against which NFC drivers would register.
> >- A netlink socket for handling the HCI commands. That would 
> >put a big part of the NFC HCI layer in kernel land and could 
> >potentially simplify the existing NFC stacks.
> 
> Shouldn't be better to add a new AF_NFC sock family and then register new LLCP and HCI protocols?
> 
That's the Bluetooth approach, and it works just fine as well.
However, the netlink option for sending commands and receiving answers to/from
a subsystem sounds more appropriate, at least to me.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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