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List:       ms-smartcardddk
Subject:    Re: Dual Smarcard Reader registration ?
From:       Doron Holan <doronh () EXCHANGE ! MICROSOFT ! COM>
Date:       2000-08-10 14:05:06
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with the current smclib, you can only support one card.  if you have a
reader that attaches to a bus that can enumerate many children for one
device, such as USB, then you do not need to create a bus driver. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Heider [mailto:heider@TOWITOKO.DE]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:23 PM
To: SmartCardDDK@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: Dual Smarcard Reader registration ?


Hi Doron,

what are the plans about multi-slot readers? Will PC/SC 2.0
include some support here? Or will to require a bus driver
forever?


> if you have 2 slots, but they do not enumerate individually (this
> depends on the bus type of the reader), then your driver must become a
> bus driver, and each child that it enumerates is a slot.  So in your
> case, your driver woudl enumerate 2 children.  read the win2k ddk on
> details of being a bus driver.

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