linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] NFC: NCI: Adds NCI init and reset API for drivers

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Message-ID: <20150326002937.GB10954@ribalta.home>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:29:37 +0100
From:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Robert Dolca <robert.dolca@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-nfc@...ts.01.org,
	Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
	Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] NFC: NCI: Adds NCI init and reset API for drivers

Hi Robert,

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:01:47PM +0200, Robert Dolca wrote:
> In order to communicate with the device during the setup
> phase, the driver may need to initialize the device. After
> the setup is done the driver should reset the device to leave
> it in the same state that it was before the setup function
> call.
I would prefer not to export those symbols, but instead introduce a
quirk bitmap to let the NCI core know that your device expects the core
to be initialized before calling the setup ops.
That would be done from nci_open_device().

Cheers,
Samuel.
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