I've been doing quite some work on the kernel-side drivers for Omnikey CardMan 4000 and 4040 PCMCIA smartcard readers. Apart from a general overhaul (kernel coding style, get rid of 2.4.x cruft, ...) I also added support for the new 2.6.13 hotplug-style PCMCIA subsystem. I'm extremely happy that PCMCIA driver binding can now happen without some userspace daemon running...
On the userspace side, I'm tearing apart all the changes that I did to my local openct-0.6.2 fork. Now the per-feature patches are merged with current openct SVN, which means that I can submit them to the OpenCT project after some testing tomorrow.