Bug 859130 - NFC kernel support is disabled
Summary: NFC kernel support is disabled
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-20 15:46 UTC by Samuel Ortiz
Modified: 2013-01-03 13:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-01-03 13:39:32 UTC
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Description Samuel Ortiz 2012-09-20 15:46:43 UTC 
Description of problem:

The NFC kernel subsystem is disabled with the latest Fedora kernels.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F17

NFC is now found on most recent Android phones and high end laptops, but the NFC kernel support for F17 is disabled. The NFC daemon can't run without it, preventing applications to do NFC through its D-Bus API.
Apps can also do NFC p2p with e.g.Android phones by using the kernel NFC LLCP sockets, and obviously this can't be achieved without kernel support.
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Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2013-01-03 13:39:32 UTC 
This was enabled in F17 around the time we rebased to 3.6.1.
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