diff --git a/include/media/videobuf-vmalloc.h b/include/media/videobuf-vmalloc.h
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+/*
+ * helper functions for vmalloc capture buffers
+ *
+ * The functions expect the hardware being able to scatter gatter
+ * (i.e. the buffers are not linear in physical memory, but fragmented
+ * into PAGE_SIZE chunks).  They also assume the driver does not need
+ * to touch the video data.
+ *
+ * (c) 2007 Mauro Carvalho Chehab, <mchehab@infradead.org>
+ *
+ * This program 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
+ */
+
+#include <media/videobuf-core.h>
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+struct videbuf_vmalloc_memory
+{
+	u32                 magic;
+
+	/* for mmap'ed buffers */
+	struct videobuf_mapping *map;
+
+	void                *vmalloc;
+
+	/* remap_vmalloc_range seems to need to run after mmap() on some cases */
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+};
+
+void videobuf_queue_vmalloc_init(struct videobuf_queue* q,
+			 struct videobuf_queue_ops *ops,
+			 void *dev,
+			 spinlock_t *irqlock,
+			 enum v4l2_buf_type type,
+			 enum v4l2_field field,
+			 unsigned int msize,
+			 void *priv);
+
+void *videobuf_to_vmalloc (struct videobuf_buffer *buf);
+
+void videobuf_vmalloc_free (struct videobuf_buffer *buf);