[Muscle] [PATCH SERIES] Fix O2Micro Smartcard reader driver

[Jan Kiszka]

Éric Piel wrote:
> 2007年12月15日 02:29, Jan Kiszka wrote/a écrit:
>> Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 
>>>> Beyond this, are there plans to work on this driver, push it in some
>>>> SCM
>>>> repository (on sourceforge, gna, etc.), improve it towards mainline
>>>> specifically, ...?
>>> The question may be: do you want to maintain it yourself?
>>
>> Yeah, I was afraid of this. It is an option I consider if there is no
>> alternative.
> Hi,
> My original plan was to maintain the driver a few months until it get
> merged in the kernel. That was a year and a half :-S I'm willing to
> continue but I have to face the reality that I only have little time for
> this. Probably a good way would be to set up a sourceforge account with
> svn and put everything. Jan, would you accept to co-maintain the project
> with me?

I already prepared something: gna.org/projects/o2scr :->
(I picked them as they have nicer support IMHO)

I hope you don't mind. Just create an account at gna and join the club
of maintainers, I will add you ASAP!

> 
> I think the idea is to get it merged as soon as possible in the kernel,
> which should be quite feasible with all the work you have done :-)

I'm afraid it's not that easy. The driver is still in bad shape, just
try to use it with libchipcard (I tried to read my medical cards). The
internal design is a big mess, and I also think a lot of code can be
moved to user land (raw protocol handling e.g.). Just look how
libtowitoko is structured.

> 
> BTW, Ludovic, this driver is separated into one part in the kernelland
> and one in userland as a pcsc library. Once the kernel part is accepted
> in Linus' tree, would it seem fine to put the userland library into the
> pscs-lite tarball? Or what is the usual organization?

Good question. There are _far_ too many chipcard middlewares around,
leaving me "slightly" confused. It seems that some play with others, but
none is a full replacement of the others.

Jan

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