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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Driver for a SmartCard interface on a SoC
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 15:18:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005071518.50406.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)

Hi,

most SmartCard readers are external devices, connected via USB or serial 
lines. So, they do not need special in-kernel drivers.

My SmartCard interface is part of a SoC (i.MX25 CPU). So, I need an in-kernel 
driver. Where would be the best place in the kernel tree, to add a driver for 
this kind of device? Maybe "drivers/char"?
To exchange data with the plugged in SmartCard, only a couple of IOCTLs are 
required (detecting if a card is plugged in, socket power on/off, send reset 
to the card, configuring the communication parameters). Data exchange with 
the SmartCard can be done with simple read/write.

Any idea?

Regards,
Juergen
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 13:18 Juergen Beisert [this message]
2010-05-07 13:02 ` Driver for a SmartCard interface on a SoC Alan Cox
2010-05-07 14:25   ` Juergen Beisert
2010-05-11 21:33     ` Alan Cox
2010-05-12  7:38       ` Juergen Beisert
2010-05-13  9:33         ` Alan Cox
2010-05-13  9:38         ` Alan Cox

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