Hi All,

I was hoping to get some advice on the proper use of Alsalib
within Wine, particularly with respect to
device detection and enumeration.

Wine has a need to provide a list of all available
PCM (playback and capture) devices back to our
clients (a Windows program).

Right now, Wine has a brute force
scan process (iterate 0-5 in cards, always use dev 0).

I've implemented a program that represents what I think
is the 'right' way for Wine to perform this scan.
Note that this code is just for the default case where
the user hasn't explicitly specified a device
name; Wine will still allow the user to override this
scan with an explicit device name such as file:/tmp/blat

The basic approach I take is as follows:
   Use snd_card_next to iterate cards;
within cards, use snd_ctl_pcm_next_device
to iterate devices.

I jump through a few hoops to detect and respect
a specification of ALSA_CTL_CARD or ALSA_CARD, etc,

Now I've deluded myself into thinking this is a
careful, rigorous implementation.

Thoughts?  Comments?  Tactfully worded puncturing of
my delusions <grin>?

Thanks,

Jeremy