Hello,
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Andre Zepezauer wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 09:22 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote:
>> Hello,
>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:47, Andre Zepezauer
>> <andre.zepeza...@student.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>>> With the current trunk 2048b keys on CardOS are working again. Therefore
>>> the max_*_size patches work for me. But I have two suggestions:
>>> 
>>> [1] The intended overriding will not work, if the card has a default
>>> value of zero for max_*_size. If this is the case, then limitations
>>> imposed by the reader are not honoured.
>> It would be a programming error, which does not make sense. Åšetting
>> this to 0 would mean "I'm a card and I can't receive or send data, but
>> here is my 1K LOC driver nevertheless".
> 
> The value of max_*_size actually defaults to zero [3] and will stay so,
> if not overridden by the card driver. See how it is used in the
> iso-driver. IMHO zero is a legal value and means that no restrictions
> are imposed by the card. Same is true for reader drivers.
I managed to mis-explain my own idea.
Yes, you are right, the values default to zero which means "no limitations" 
(not "zero bytes")
And yes, the overriding check is bogus if card does not impose limitations 
before the reader does. Will fix.

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