From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751209Ab3BEF44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2013 00:56:56 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45884 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750747Ab3BEF4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2013 00:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: <51109F20.60205@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:56:48 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Priyaranjan Das CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 7811 driver for Magnetic Cards. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/04/2013 09:08 PM, Priyaranjan Das wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on a Magnetic Card driver which would support ISO/IEC > 7811 standard for track data. Can anyone tell me if such an > implementation is available in existing kernel or not? I am basically > looking for code that implements the ISO/IEC 7811 standard or any > similar standards. > You have to write a driver for whatever reader/writer you are using. A lot of them simply show up as a USB HID (i.e. a keyboard) and thus don't need any driver at all. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.