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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:19:17PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> This is the first NFC pull request for the 3.13 kernel.
> 
> It's a fairly big one, with the following highlights:
> 
> - NFC digital layer implementation: Most NFC chipsets implement the NFC
>   digital layer in firmware, but others have more basic functionalities
>   and expect the host to implement the digital layer. This layer sits
>   below the NFC core.
> 
> - Sony's port100 support: This is "soft" NFC USB dongle that expects the
>   digital layer to be implemented on the host. This is the first user of
>   our NFC digital stack implementation.
> 
> - Secure element API: We now provide a netlink API for enabling,
>   disabling and discovering NFC attached (embedded or UICC ones) secure
>   elements. With some userspace help, this allows us to support NFC
>   payments.
>   Only the pn544 driver currently supports that API.
> 
> - NCI SPI fixes and improvements: In order to support NCI devices over
>   SPI, we fixed and improved our NCI/SPI implementation. The currently
>   most deployed NFC NCI chipset, Broadcom's bcm2079x, supports that mode
>   and we're planning to use our NCI/SPI framework to implement a
>   driver for it.
> 
> - pn533 fragmentation support in target mode: This was the only missing
>   feature from our pn533 impementation. We now support fragmentation in
>   both Tx and Rx modes, in target mode.
> 
> The following changes since commit b75ff5e84bb6c2d43a8ec39b240c80f0543821f0:
> 
>   Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (2013-09-19 13:57:28 -0500)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/nfc-next.git tags/nfc-next-3.13-1
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to ddc1a70b5f2a07a932ed31f989d63937bb813439:
> 
>   NFC: Fix SE API related sparse warning (2013-10-07 14:18:44 +0200)

Pulling now...

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