Hi, I'm currently working on adding support for different NFC reader chips to android. Investigations showed that the current NFC stack in Android is very closely linked to a specific reader from nxp and that it might be difficult to get support for different HW backends into this stack.
Since kernel version 3.1 a nfc subsystem with proper hardware abstraction is part of the linux kernel. This looks much more promising for adding support for different HW. (And also has a much nicer architecture than the userspace lib currently used in android.) I would very much prefer adding the new reader to the kernel subsystem than the lib currently used by android. However this leads to the question if (and when) Android is planning to switch to the nfc subsystem in the kernel or if it is going to keep the current setup? Does anyone have information on this topic? cheers, Bernhard -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
