* 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;
};