[PATCH 02/04] ARM i.MX25 Add SIM driver

[Wolfram Sang]

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

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