On 9/9/2011 4:22 AM, Martin Paljak wrote: > On 09/09/11 11:32, Viktor Tarasov wrote: >> Le 09/09/2011 10:09, Martin Paljak a écrit : >>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:39, Viktor >>> Tarasov<viktor.tara...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Le 09/09/2011 09:23, Martin Paljak a écrit : >>>>> If we omit loadable modules, we could also take that ATR tables are >>>>> indeed static and do not need to be released? Is this correct? >>>> Exact. >>>> Only loadable module prevents the static ATR tables. >>> >>> Then the solution is IMHO simple. >>> >>> AFAIK only one proprietary (which does not work with 0.12 IIRC, the >>> troubled DNIe binary module) exists in the wild at the moment and I >>> don't think we should bolster piggybacking on OpenSC for this purpose. >> >> Fine, >> and to continue this movement, could we envisage the abandon of support >> of the obsolete cards ? > As you are also the original code author, you should be the best to > judge what is relevant and what not. > > > >> Example, 'oberthur' driver supports the old v.2.xx of the 'AuthentIC' >> PKI applet with the proprietary file system. >> This card is not more produced. >> The new 3.2 version of this applet, compatible with PKCS#15, is >> actually supported by 'authentic' card driver. > > If there are cards out there and there is not much needed to maintain > the current driver as a working entity, I would not rush to remove it > ASAP. Maybe a forward notice would do good and the code can rotten there > with the intent of being removed in X months ?
There may be (or not) people who are using one of these old drivers who are not developers, or on any OpenSC list. Is there any way to find out from the user community if a driver is still being used? Anyway to notify a user that a driver may be dropped? One possible way would be to turn off some drivers in the opensc.conf file. Comments and an OpenSC web page would say how to turn it back on, and how to request that it not be dropped. > > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > opensc-devel mailing list > opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org > http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel -- Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov> Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439 (630) 252-5444 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
