bzip2/lzma/gzip: fix comments describing decompressor API

[mv-sheeva.git] / include / linux / decompress / generic.h

diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/generic.h b/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
index 6dfb856327bbe714300ae004cba6787d59d961d0..0c7111a55a1aaf101dd5aefbef1f77036ed599d6 100644 (file)
--- 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);