On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 13:23 +1200, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:06:52PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > Because the IAA hardware has a 4k history-window limitation, only > > buffers <= 4k, or that have been compressed using a <= 4k history > > window, are technically compliant with the deflate spec, which > > allows > > for a window of up to 32k. Because of this limitation, the IAA > > fixed > > mode deflate algorithm is given its own algorithm name, 'deflate- > > iaa'. > > So compressed results produced by this can always be decompressed > by the generic algorithm, right? > Right. > If it's only when you decompress that you may encounter failures, > then I suggest that we still use the same algorithm name, but fall > back at run-time if the result cannot be decompressed by the > hardware. Is it possible to fail gracefully and then retry the > decompression in this case? > Yeah, I think that should be possible. I'll try it out and add it to the next version. Thanks for the suggestion! Tom > Thanks,
