X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=filter.h;h=0808059dac3f7450aaa73c27d6afd4d382c62e94;hp=befcd3381abd539ec743bf3e28b5198d7b093b50;hb=7e37a7cf49df279b9ab467fa4f62dd376c791a26;hpb=e90440367f744a7723b201a95888e66f070ffa92

diff --git a/filter.h b/filter.h
index befcd338..0808059d 100644
--- a/filter.h
+++ b/filter.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
  *
  * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
  */
@@ -81,19 +81,38 @@ struct filter {
 	 * argv. On failure, a negative paraslash error code must be returned.
 	 */
 	int (*parse_config)(int argc, char **argv, void **config);
+	/**
+	 * Deallocate the memory for the configuration.
+	 *
+	 * This is called to free whatever ->parse_config() has allocated.
+	 */
 	void (*free_config)(void *conf);
 
 	/** The help texts for this filter. */
 	struct ggo_help help;
+	/**
+	 * Set scheduler timeout and add file descriptors to fd sets.
+	 *
+	 * This function is used to control the timeout value for select. It
+	 * only allowed to decrease the current value. The second purpose of
+	 * this function is to set file descriptors to be watched by the
+	 * subsequent select call to the two fd sets.
+	 */
 	void (*pre_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
 	/**
 	 * Convert (filter) the given data.
 	 *
-	 * Pointer to the converting function of the filter. It should convert as
-	 * input data as possible. On errors, the post_select function is supposed
-	 * to set t->error to a (negative) error code.
+	 * Pointer to the converting function of the filter. On errors, the
+	 * post_select function is supposed to set t->error to a (negative)
+	 * error code.
 	 */
 	void (*post_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
+	/**
+	 * Answer a buffer tree query.
+	 *
+	 * This optional function pointer is used for inter node communications
+	 * of the buffer tree nodes. See \ref btr_command_handler for details.
+	 */
 	btr_command_handler execute;
 };
 
@@ -101,6 +120,8 @@ void filter_init(void);
 int check_filter_arg(char *filter_arg, void **conf);
 void print_filter_helps(int detailed);
 void generic_filter_pre_select(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
+int decoder_execute(const char *cmd, unsigned sample_rate, unsigned channels,
+		char **result);
 
 static inline void write_int16_host_endian(char *buf, int val)
 {