The Linux NFC Subsystem - ELCE 2011

The Linux NFC Subsystem

NFC (Near Field Communication) is a wireless protocol mostly designed for fast information reading and writing from nearby devices and tags. It also allows NFC devices to establish a transport layer link and exchange larger chunks of data. While Android ships with its own multi platform NFC stack writing HCI frames to a raw character device and supporting one single device, Linux is currently missing any kind of generic and clean NFC support, from both kernel and user space. Therefore, a new socket family for NFC, along with a kernel netlink API for high level NFC commands passing is being developed. An NFC user space daemon abstracts those kernel APIs into a high level D-Bus API for applications to easily use. This presentation will show the NFC netlink and D-Bus APIs, the NFC subsystem current status and the further work.

Video source: http://free-electrons.com/blog/elce-2011-videos/

http://www.cnx-software.com/2011/11/08/the-linux-nfc-subsystem-elce-2011/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9jMs896-I0