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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NFC: Driver for Inside Secure MicroRead NFC chip
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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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