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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
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diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/generic.h b/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
index 6dfb856327bb..0c7111a55a1a 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);