To my knowledge the integration of the patches by Mounir IDRASSI has been rejected due to missing automated tests. This is a problem since for a full test someone has to write/provide an IFD handler which emulates some stuff.
IIRC, there was also a problem with the way it integration was done. It assumed the types between the Windows scard API and the Linux one were compatible, but in fact they may not be. I don't recall that this was ever addressed. --Juan