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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-08 16:48:51 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-08 16:48:51 +0100
commitdba58e39ced7af63f2748d12bbb2b4ac83c72391 (patch)
treeee15a5e7667b51d0d0f7e8cb39064652f7c84c28 /include/linux/decompress/generic.h
parent9de36825b321fe9fe9cf73260554251af579f4ca (diff)
parent78ff7fae04554b49d29226ed12536268c2500d1f (diff)
Merge branches 'tracing/doc', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/printk' and 'tracing/textedit' into tracing/core
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+#ifndef DECOMPRESS_GENERIC_H
+#define DECOMPRESS_GENERIC_H
+
+/* Minimal chunksize to be read.
+ *Bzip2 prefers at least 4096
+ *Lzma prefers 0x10000 */
+#define COMPR_IOBUF_SIZE 4096
+
+typedef int (*decompress_fn) (unsigned char *inbuf, int len,
+ int(*fill)(void*, unsigned int),
+ int(*writebb)(void*, unsigned int),
+ unsigned char *output,
+ int *posp,
+ void(*error)(char *x));
+
+/* inbuf - input buffer
+ *len - len of pre-read data in inbuf
+ *fill - function to fill inbuf if empty
+ *writebb - function to write out outbug
+ *posp - if non-null, input position (number of bytes read) will be
+ * returned here
+ *
+ *If len != 0, the inbuf is initialized (with as much data), and fill
+ *should not be called
+ *If len = 0, the inbuf is allocated, but empty. Its size is IOBUF_SIZE
+ *fill should be called (repeatedly...) to read data, at most IOBUF_SIZE
+ */
+
+/* Utility routine to detect the decompression method */
+decompress_fn decompress_method(const unsigned char *inbuf, int len,
+ const char **name);
+
+#endif