X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=write_common.c;h=b85699367acd45d88eb4044da6450d2717f48437;hp=faf20749ba33062ed66845cafa38a283bcaa3c02;hb=08be831b7b7e3e55d862eb988a604ccbde603403;hpb=d91b2b2a70c85562b5d30cc5fda46468532e314a

diff --git a/write_common.c b/write_common.c
index faf20749..b8569936 100644
--- a/write_common.c
+++ b/write_common.c
@@ -47,14 +47,13 @@ void writer_init(void)
  *
  * \return On success, a pointer to the gengetopt args info struct is returned
  * and \a writer_num contains the number of the writer. Otherwise this function
- * returns \p NULL.
+ * prints an error message and calls exit().
  */
-void *check_writer_arg(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
+void *check_writer_arg_or_die(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	*writer_num = -E_WRITE_COMMON_SYNTAX;
-	PARA_INFO_LOG("checking  %s\n", wa);
+	PARA_INFO_LOG("checking %s\n", wa);
 	FOR_EACH_WRITER(i) {
 		const char *name = writer_names[i];
 		size_t len = strlen(name);
@@ -69,8 +68,8 @@ void *check_writer_arg(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
 		*writer_num = i;
 		return writers[i].parse_config_or_die(c? wa + len + 1 : "");
 	}
-	PARA_ERROR_LOG("writer not found\n");
-	return NULL;
+	PARA_EMERG_LOG("invalid writer %s\n", wa);
+	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -97,41 +96,6 @@ void register_writer_node(struct writer_node *wn, struct btr_node *parent)
 	register_task(&wn->task);
 }
 
-/**
- * Parse config and register a task for a writer node.
- *
- * \param arg Command line arguments.
- * \param parent The new node will be a child of \a parent.
- * \param wn The writer node.
- *
- * If arg is \p NULL, the OS-dependent default writer is used with no
- * arguments.  The default writers are alsa for Linux, osx for OS X, oss for
- * *BSD, and the file writer if the default writer is not supported.
- *
- * Once the writer configuration has been retrieved from the ->parse_config
- * callback a writer node is created, its buffer tree node is added to the
- * buffer tree as a child of the given parent.
- *
- * Finally, the new writer node's task structure is initialized and registered
- * to the paraslash scheduler.
- *
- * \return Standard.
- */
-int setup_writer_node(const char *arg, struct btr_node *parent,
-		struct writer_node *wn)
-{
-	if (arg)
-		wn->conf = check_writer_arg(arg, &wn->writer_num);
-	else {
-		wn->writer_num = DEFAULT_WRITER;
-		wn->conf = writers[DEFAULT_WRITER].parse_config_or_die("");
-	}
-	if (!wn->conf)
-		return -E_WRITE_COMMON_SYNTAX;
-	register_writer_node(wn, parent);
-	return 1;
-}
-
 /**
  * Print the help text of all writers to stdout.
  *