-/**
- * the init function of the writer
- *
- * It must fill in all other function pointers of the given
- * writer structure.
- *
- */
-void (*init)(struct writer *w);
-/**
- *
- * open one instance of this writer
- *
- * This function should perform any work necessary to write the incoming
- * stream. If To this aim, it may allocate its private data structure and store
- * a pointer to that structure via the given writer_node paramenter.
- */
-int (*open)(struct writer_node *);
-/**
- *
- * write a chunk of audio data
- *
- * This is called from the driving application whenever a data block of \a
- * chunk_bytes is available. It must return the number of bytes consumed from
- * \a data on success, and negative on errors.
- *
- */
-int (*write)(char *data, size_t nbytes, struct writer_node *);
-void (*pre_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
-void (*post_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
-/**
- * close one instance of the writer
- *
- * This function is assumed to succeed.
- */
-void (*close)(struct writer_node *);
-/**
- * shutdown the writer
- *
- * This is a optional function pointer used for cleaning
- * up.
- */
-void (*shutdown)(struct writer_node *);
+ /**
+ * the init function of the writer
+ *
+ * It must fill in all other function pointers of the given
+ * writer structure.
+ *
+ */
+ void (*init)(struct writer *w);
+ /**
+ *
+ *
+ * the command line parser of the writer
+ *
+ * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options are
+ * valid. On success, it should return a pointer to the writer-specific
+ * configuration data determined by \a options. Note that this might be called
+ * more than once with different values of \a options.
+ *
+ */
+ void * (*parse_config)(const char *options);
+ /**
+ *
+ * open one instance of this writer
+ *
+ * This function should perform any work necessary to write the incoming
+ * stream. If To this aim, it may allocate its private data structure and store
+ * a pointer to that structure via the given writer_node paramenter.
+ */
+ int (*open)(struct writer_node *);
+ /**
+ *
+ * write a chunk of audio data
+ *
+ * This is called from the writer node group task's pre_select(). It
+ * may use the sched pointer to add any file descriptors or to decrease
+ * the select timeout. It must return positive on success and negative
+ * on errors.
+ */
+ int (*pre_select)(struct sched *s, struct writer_node *wn);
+ /**
+ * Called from the post_select function of the wng task. It must keep
+ * track of the the number of bytes consumed from the wng's buffer via
+ * the wn->written variable (which may be modified by the wng handling
+ * functions). This function must return positive on success and
+ * negative on errors.
+ */
+ int (*post_select)(struct sched *s, struct writer_node *wn);
+ /**
+ * close one instance of the writer
+ *
+ * This function is assumed to succeed.
+ */
+ void (*close)(struct writer_node *);
+ /**
+ * shutdown the writer
+ *
+ * This is a optional function pointer used for cleaning
+ * up.
+ */
+ void (*shutdown)(struct writer_node *);