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feature-removal: Remove pn544 raw driver 

The pn544_hci driver uses the kernel NFC APIs while pn544 does not.
Moreover pn544 is outdated and not maintained.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Samuel Ortiz 2012-05-07 12:31:30 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
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@ -534,6 +534,18 @@ Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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What: Removing the pn544 raw driver.
When: 3.6
Why: With the introduction of the NFC HCI and SHDL kernel layers, pn544.c
is being replaced by pn544_hci.c which is accessible through the netlink
and socket NFC APIs. Moreover, pn544.c is outdated and does not seem to
work properly with the latest Android stacks.
Having 2 drivers for the same hardware is confusing and as such we
should only keep the one following the kernel NFC APIs.
Who: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
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What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value)
When: 3.6
Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This