I've been working on a crash dump utility for the drm/msm GPU driver to get the useful GPU information out after a hang. Taking inspiration from the i915 driver I thought it was very smart to use ascii85 format to encode the binary buffers and other bits. This patch moves the two very simple functions to encode binaries as ascii85 from the i915 driver to a linux header to be enjoyed by all. I debated if it was better to move them to drm/ or go all the way and obviously I picked all the way, but if the owners and maintainers feel like this is something we want to keep closer to home then by all means lets do what feels best. Suggestions and flames welcome. Coming immediately after will be the drm/msm stack that uses this in anger. Jordan Crouse (1): include: Move ascii85 functions from i915 to linux/ascii85.h drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c | 24 +--------------- include/linux/ascii85.h | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/ascii85.h -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
