MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:11:27 +0000 (17:11 +0100)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 03:20:21 +0000 (13:50 +1030)
commite1045992949160b56309b730b8bdc428f2f8b69e
treeca0e00fcd4502cb66df19f4e1aecbb1b4544908c
parent42d5ec27f873c654a68f7f865dcd7737513e9508
MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI

Provide a function to read raw data of a predetermined size into an MPI rather
than expecting the size to be encoded within the data.  The data is assumed to
represent an unsigned integer, and the resulting MPI will be positive.

The function looks like this:

MPI mpi_read_raw_data(const void *, size_t);

This is useful for reading ASN.1 integer primitives where the length is encoded
in the ASN.1 metadata.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
include/linux/mpi.h
lib/mpi/mpicoder.c