[MPlayer-dev-eng] merging alsa9/alsa1.x

[Jonas Jensen]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 21:17, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Why is there a difference between alsa 0.9 and alsa 1.x driver in mplayer.
> It is possible with only adding 2 lines to the source code, to make a 
> single driver that works for 0.9.0rc2 and above.

IIRC, the 2-line solution is for adding easy interoperability with the
alsa9 api, which is deprecated and will be removed in a future alsa
release. That's why the alsa9 driver is secondary and more or less
unmaintained.

AFAIK, the alsa 0.9.x API was never meant to be stable.

-- 
Jonas Jensen <jbj at knef.dk>