[PATCH 02/04] ARM i.MX25 Add SIM driver
From: Wolfram Sang <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-03 15:29:39
Hi,
Regarding if this driver can fit into mainline, I agree that the kernel is not the right place to contain a smartcard API. There are other projects doing that quite well (muscle, opensc, ...). But in fact, the idea of this driver is not to give a smartcard API but support the I.MX25 SIM core, which is explicitly hardware dependant.
Juergen Beisert also wrote a driver for it and you can read the discussions about mainlining strategies here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/7/214 http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-devel/2010-May/014225.html Patches for opensc: http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-devel/2010-May/014271.html IIRC the direction was okay, just some obstacles left. Kind regards, Wolfram -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20110103/5756d247/attachment.sig>