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

[Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Pavan,

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:22:01PM -0500, Pavan Savoy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:24:50PM +0300, Waldemar.Rymarkiewicz@tieto.com wrote:
> >> Hi Samuel,
> >>
> >> >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.
> >>
> >> I haven't used netlink in practice, so just wondering why netlink. I assume, then, it's more suitable :)
> >>
> > Have a look at the wireless nl80211.c implementation. It's a good example for
> > that sort of usage.
> 
> So, why was the network interface 'ala eth0 or the netlink interface dropped?
The netlink interface was not dropped. See:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=130705125228073&w=2

> I saw these patches recently "NFC: add nfc subsystem core" - which
> seem to add just the device /dev/nfc - am I correct ?
No, the /dev/nfc interface is gone with this subsystem. Instead you will talk
to an AF_NFC socket, or to the NFC generic netlink socket for some NFC high
level commands and events. See:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=130705125728090&w=2

for more details.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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