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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Shall 'bmp' uncompress automagically?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:57:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313035729.GG444@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120310221035.GC14564@pengutronix.de>

On 23:10 Sat 10 Mar     , Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since we have 'file_detect_type' in barebox, we could use it to automagically
> uncompress BMP files. Pseudo-code:
> 
> if (file_detect_type(bmp) != BMP) {
> 	/* No BMP? Try to depack stream */
> 	ret = uncompress(bmp, unpacked_bmp);
> 	if (ret < 0 || file_detect_type(unpacked_bmp) != BMP)
> 		return -ENOBMP;
> }
> 
> Is something like this wanted? Or shall this be done entirely via scripts?
> 
> if [ $file is somehow detected as compressed ]
> 	uncompress $file /bmp
> 	bmp /bmp
> 	rm /bmp
> else
> 	bmp $file
> fi
I prefer the second one

I send a patch to known the type via command

Best Regards,
J.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-10 22:10 Wolfram Sang
2012-03-13  3:57 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-03-13 10:23   ` Wolfram Sang
2012-03-13 17:16     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-03-23  9:46       ` Wolfram Sang

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