Re: Path forward for NFC in the kernel

David Heidelberg
2026-04-17T12:25:22Z

On 17/04/2026 10:54, Michael Walle wrote:
> On Fri Apr 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM CEST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Does anyone knows if the NFC stack/drivers actually works fine? Did
>> anyone test actual devices?
>
> I was working on a product which used an NFC part from NXP. We
> started with the upstream driver and libnfc and we did some
> bugfixes, that's also probably the reason I'm in the loop here ;).
>
> But eventually it was decided to switch to the libs provided by the
> vendor, because that at least somehow worked reliably (and you'll
> get support from the vendor).

So what we need is show vendor how wonderful Linux kernel is, thus he should
contribute to it and then switch to it (when nVidia can understand it's
beneficial to them, why not NXP).

David

>
> -michael

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David Heidelberg