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+/*
+ * collate.h - Defines for NTFS kernel collation handling.  Part of the
+ *	       Linux-NTFS project.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2004 Anton Altaparmakov
+ *
+ * This program/include file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+ * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program/include file is distributed in the hope that it will be
+ * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
+ * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program (in the main directory of the Linux-NTFS
+ * distribution in the file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation,Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_NTFS_COLLATE_H
+#define _LINUX_NTFS_COLLATE_H
+
+#include "types.h"
+#include "volume.h"
+
+static inline BOOL ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported(COLLATION_RULE cr) {
+	int i;
+
+	/*
+	 * FIXME:  At the moment we only support COLLATION_BINARY and
+	 * COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG, so we return false for everything else for
+	 * now.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(cr != COLLATION_BINARY && cr != COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG))
+		return FALSE;
+	i = le32_to_cpu(cr);
+	if (likely(((i >= 0) && (i <= 0x02)) ||
+			((i >= 0x10) && (i <= 0x13))))
+		return TRUE;
+	return FALSE;
+}
+
+extern int ntfs_collate(ntfs_volume *vol, COLLATION_RULE cr,
+		const void *data1, const int data1_len,
+		const void *data2, const int data2_len);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_NTFS_COLLATE_H */