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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-14 15:59:00 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-14 15:59:30 +0200
commit4cd1993f0046fbc765dbf20af90966f5661e3789 (patch)
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parent64f1607ffbbc772685733ea63e6f7f4183df1b16 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Reason: Martin's timekeeping cleanup series depends on both timers/core and mainline changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/decompress/generic.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/generic.h b/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
index 6dfb856..0c7111a 100644
--- a/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
@@ -1,31 +1,37 @@
#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(*flush)(void*, unsigned int),
+ unsigned char *outbuf,
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
+ *fill - function to fill inbuf when empty
+ *flush - function to write out outbuf
+ *outbuf - output buffer
*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
+ *If len != 0, inbuf should contain all the necessary input data, and fill
+ *should be NULL
+ *If len = 0, inbuf can be NULL, in which case the decompressor will allocate
+ *the input buffer. If inbuf != NULL it must be at least XXX_IOBUF_SIZE bytes.
+ *fill will be called (repeatedly...) to read data, at most XXX_IOBUF_SIZE
+ *bytes should be read per call. Replace XXX with the appropriate decompressor
+ *name, i.e. LZMA_IOBUF_SIZE.
+ *
+ *If flush = NULL, outbuf must be large enough to buffer all the expected
+ *output. If flush != NULL, the output buffer will be allocated by the
+ *decompressor (outbuf = NULL), and the flush function will be called to
+ *flush the output buffer at the appropriate time (decompressor and stream
+ *dependent).
*/
+
/* Utility routine to detect the decompression method */
decompress_fn decompress_method(const unsigned char *inbuf, int len,
const char **name);
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