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diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/generic.h b/include/linux/decompress/generic.h
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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