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Re: [PATCH] NFC: Download TI NFC init script

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Hi Ilan,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM,  <ilanelias78@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ilan Elias <ilane@xxxxxx>
>
> Download TI NFC init script during nfcwilink open operation,
> after the NFC channel is registered with TI shared transport.
> TI NFC init script is written in BTS format.
> First, read the chip version via a special vendor specific command.
> Second, we request the relevant BTS file from the user space, and
> then send the BTS commands to the chip.

nfcwilink_open() begins by calling the shared transport's
st_register() function, which also seem to be loading, parsing and
sending a BTS firmware to the device.

Does it mean that two firmwares are needed for these NFC devices ?

>From a quick look it seems that much of the boilerplate code for the
BTS handling is quite similar; any way to avoid some of the code
duplication (something the shared transport code doesn't try very hard
to do ;) ?

Thanks,
Ohad.
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