[PATCH 2/2] mmdevapi: Accept up to 8 channels.

[Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com]

Hi,

: if(max > 7)
always felt wrong since there have been patches
every now and then to support 8 channels.

Note that I can't test that stuff with my poor stereo headphones.

Googling for KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_* it appears that different projects use
slightly different sets of SPEAKER_* (esp. about LFE with 3 or 5
channels).  Thus I believe it's wrong that Winealsa restricts itself
to one particular choice in IsFormatSupported, yielding S_FALSE when
get_channel_mask() != dwChannelMask

There's also this guy who explored the relationship between
dwChannelMask and nChannels in detail:
Defining speaker locations in multi-channel streams
http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.schulz/wdmaudiodev/C641039305/E1238357361/Media/spkloc00.01.00.pdf

Perhaps Wine should just accept almost any channel mask until it
really feeds the channel information to the underlying ALSA/OSS/CoreAudio.

Regards,
 Jörg Höhle
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