[PATCH] Updates the wine alsa driver to the new alsa api. No functionallity changes.

[Mike Hearn]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:56 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I have been working on improving wine support for alsa, but have run 
> into some problems. Windows sound api is so incredibly bad. :-(

Well, you don't work on Wine for the joy of working with the best
tools ...

> I might just work on getting DirectSound working, and the get winmm to 
> use direct sound instead of winmm using the sound card directly.

I'm pretty sure that's the wrong way around. DirectSound is implemented
on top of WinMM for a reason: I'm pretty sure that's how it's done in
Windows and anyway, we don't want to duplicate drivers.

> We need to get to a single API between sound hardware and windows apis.

Yes, that is WinMM

> I think winmm should work over directsound ok. I just need to look into 
> what ASIO does now.

I think ASIO loads kernel drivers and bypasses the whole thing.

thanks -mike