Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:42178 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756397Ab3JRSPX (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:15:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:00:21 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Samuel Ortiz Cc: Linux Wireless , Linux NFC Subject: Re: [GIT] [3.13] NFC updates Message-ID: <20131018180021.GF28130@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20131018_201532_117291_01BEC430) References: <20131015161917.GF30191@zurbaran> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20131015161917.GF30191@zurbaran> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:19:17PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi John, > > This is the first NFC pull request for the 3.13 kernel. > > It's a fairly big one, with the following highlights: > > - NFC digital layer implementation: Most NFC chipsets implement the NFC > digital layer in firmware, but others have more basic functionalities > and expect the host to implement the digital layer. This layer sits > below the NFC core. > > - Sony's port100 support: This is "soft" NFC USB dongle that expects the > digital layer to be implemented on the host. This is the first user of > our NFC digital stack implementation. > > - Secure element API: We now provide a netlink API for enabling, > disabling and discovering NFC attached (embedded or UICC ones) secure > elements. With some userspace help, this allows us to support NFC > payments. > Only the pn544 driver currently supports that API. > > - NCI SPI fixes and improvements: In order to support NCI devices over > SPI, we fixed and improved our NCI/SPI implementation. The currently > most deployed NFC NCI chipset, Broadcom's bcm2079x, supports that mode > and we're planning to use our NCI/SPI framework to implement a > driver for it. > > - pn533 fragmentation support in target mode: This was the only missing > feature from our pn533 impementation. We now support fragmentation in > both Tx and Rx modes, in target mode. > > The following changes since commit b75ff5e84bb6c2d43a8ec39b240c80f0543821f0: > > Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (2013-09-19 13:57:28 -0500) > > are available in the git repository at: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/nfc-next.git tags/nfc-next-3.13-1 > > for you to fetch changes up to ddc1a70b5f2a07a932ed31f989d63937bb813439: > > NFC: Fix SE API related sparse warning (2013-10-07 14:18:44 +0200) Pulling now... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.