2 * Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
4 * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
7 /** \file write.h Writer-related structures. */
9 /** The list of supported writers. */
10 enum writer_enum {WRITER_ENUM};
13 * Describes one running instance of a writer.
16 /** The number of this writer. */
18 /** Writer-specific data. */
20 /** The writer-specific configuration of this node. */
22 struct btr_node *btrn;
27 /** Describes one supported writer. */
30 * The init function of the writer.
32 * It must fill in all other function pointers of the given
35 void (*init)(struct writer *w);
37 * The command line parser of the writer.
39 * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options
40 * are valid and return a pointer to the writer-specific configuration
41 * data determined by \a options. This function must either succeed or
42 * call exit(). Note that parse_config_or_die() might be called more
43 * than once with different values of \a options. \sa \ref
46 void *(*parse_config_or_die)(const char *options);
48 * Dellocate all configuration resources.
50 * This should free whatever was allocated by \ref parse_config_or_die().
52 void (*free_config)(void *config);
54 * Prepare the fd sets for select.
56 * This is called from scheduler. It may use the sched pointer to add
57 * any file descriptors or to decrease the select timeout.
59 void (*pre_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
63 * Called from the post_select function of the writer node's task.
65 void (*post_select)(struct sched *s, struct task *t);
67 * Close one instance of the writer.
69 * This function is assumed to succeed.
71 void (*close)(struct writer_node *);
75 * This is a optional function pointer used for cleaning up.
77 void (*shutdown)(struct writer_node *);
79 btr_command_handler execute;
82 /** Loop over each supported writer. */
83 #define FOR_EACH_WRITER(i) for (i = 0; i < NUM_SUPPORTED_WRITERS; i++)
85 /** Declare the init functions of all supported writers. */
88 /** Array containing the name of each writer. */
89 extern const char *writer_names[];
91 /** The writer structure for each supported writer. */
92 extern struct writer writers[NUM_SUPPORTED_WRITERS];