From 51854f508ce0b352560f4fea93db0d98d93fc891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:18:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add nfc_device_name() routine to allow external languages to
 extract device name

---
 src/include/nfc/nfc.h | 8 ++++++++
 src/lib/nfc.c         | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/include/nfc/nfc.h b/src/include/nfc/nfc.h
index 6159d33..6563f47 100644
--- a/src/include/nfc/nfc.h
+++ b/src/include/nfc/nfc.h
@@ -251,6 +251,14 @@ bool nfc_target_send_dep_bytes(const nfc_device_t* pnd, const byte_t* pbtTx, con
  */
 const char* nfc_version(void);
 
+/**
+ * @fn const char*nfc_device_name(nfc_device_t* pnd) 
+ * @brief Returns the device name
+ * @return Returns a string with the device name
+ */
+
+const char* nfc_device_name(nfc_device_t* pnd);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus 
 }
 #endif // __cplusplus
diff --git a/src/lib/nfc.c b/src/lib/nfc.c
index 93a22a5..4c9c74c 100644
--- a/src/lib/nfc.c
+++ b/src/lib/nfc.c
@@ -852,4 +852,11 @@ const char* nfc_version(void)
 #endif // SVN_REVISION
 }
 
+// functions to provide external hooks to python (or other languages) - that cannot 
+// handle structures in return values when used as a DLL
 
+// function to return device name of device that has already been configured/claimed
+const char* nfc_device_name(nfc_device_t* pnd)
+{
+  return pnd->acName;
+}