Re: ISO/IEC 7811 driver for Magnetic Cards.

[H. Peter Anvin]

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

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