NFC: digital: Add a note about asynchronous functions

This explains how and why the timeout parameter must be handled by the
driver implementation.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/nfc/digital.h b/include/net/nfc/digital.h
index 36acecd5f06c..81af21e9bcd4 100644
--- a/include/net/nfc/digital.h
+++ b/include/net/nfc/digital.h
@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@ typedef void (*nfc_digital_cmd_complete_t)(struct nfc_digital_dev *ddev,
  *      switch_rf to turn the radio on. A call to in|tg_configure_hw must turn
  *      the device radio on.
  * @abort_cmd: Discard the last sent command.
+ *
+ * Notes: Asynchronous functions have a timeout parameter. It is the driver
+ *      responsibility to call the digital stack back through the
+ *      nfc_digital_cmd_complete_t callback when no RF respsonse has been
+ *      received within the specified time (in milliseconds). In that case the
+ *      driver must set the resp sk_buff to ERR_PTR(-ETIMEDOUT).
+ *      Since the digital stack serializes commands to be sent, it's mandatory
+ *      for the driver to handle the timeout correctly. Otherwise the stack
+ *      would not be able to send new commands, waiting for the reply of the
+ *      current one.
  */
 struct nfc_digital_ops {
         int (*in_configure_hw)(struct nfc_digital_dev *ddev, int type,