What is the plan for combining these audio drivers? One thing that is common to each driver are the functions that handle the wave headers, adding, removing etc.
I understand the desire to extract common code from drivers that have largely been cut and paste from the OSS driver's boilerplate, but I hope this merge won't restrict new drivers to an implementation that uses this boilerplate.
I'm developing from the ground up a new ALSA/OpenAL driver which I intend to provide a "best quality" PCM DirectSound experience for gaming. The driver uses ALSA's DMIX plugin device, so it should interoperate with similarly configured arts, jack, etc. servers. It supports secondary buffers and 3D. The intent is to take advantage of HW support for these features when available. As yet I have had no need to reuse code from the OSS driver. Legacy waveOut/ waveIn interfaces will be implemented using the driver's DirectSound interfaces.
The driver is very pre-alpha and development is admittedly very slow. However, when it is ready -- if there is interest -- I would like to post it to wine-patches for code review and addition to CVS.
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