RFC: Remove auto-scan of ALSA devices from winealsa.drv

[Max TenEyck Woodbury]

On 12/11/2012 10:46 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On 11 December 2012 16:05,  <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com> wrote:
>> Cost to users:
>>
>> Users with a working ALSA device "default" should experience no
>> drawback, only benefits.  I believe this is the vast majority of users.
>>
>> Users that edit their ~/.asoundrc to define other devices without
>> simultaneously overriding !default will have to additionally edit the
>> Wine registry to name their working ALSA capture and render devices,
>> e.g. "asnoop" and "amix".
>>
> It will also pretty much just remove device selection on setup with
> multiple audio devices, which is actually fairly common these days
> with USB audio devices and HDMI outputs on graphics cards. I think the
> correct approach would to work with upstream ALSA to fix things,
> instead of just removing device enumeration.
>
>
I do not think this is a particularly good idea.  I do have two sound
systems on my machine and I have assigned each to different roles.  That
seems to work quite well.  What does not work well is leaving the role
set to 'default'.  That results in the selection of the highest latency
device with corresponding stutters and over-runs.  The current
requirement for selecting an output device is mildly annoying, but no
where near as annoying as being forced to use a faulty device.