Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NFC: Driver for Inside Secure MicroRead NFC chip | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:43:23 +0200 |
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On Friday 01 April 2011 20:19:30 Aloisio Almeida wrote: > We are finalizing a NFC stack prototype and we decided to use generic > netlink. But during the implementation we found a disadvantage of this > approach. > > While implementing data_exchange through netlink, it was not possible > to avoid memcpy as the skbuff coming from netlink can contain more > than one message.
I don't think anyone in this thread suggested using netlink for user data.
> We didn't find any implementation that uses netlink to exchage data. > As in the nl80211, the netlink is used only for control commands.
Yes, that is the normal way to do it.
> We plan to publish for comments this prototype early next week. Then > we plan to implement a version using AF_NFC.
Sounds good.
Arnd
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