[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 3/8] alsa-mixer: Do not 'unify' mixer paths.

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:55 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Unification is really just a 'lowest common denominator' system. If any
> paths do not support volume, mute or decibels, then mark them all as not
> having them.
> 
> This was done because of the flags set on sinks that dictate if it supports
> h/w volume etc. could not be changed after the sink was created. As these
> flags had very little purpose, they have now been removed and the mixer
> path is fully reinit'ed on port changes and thus we no longer need to do
> this unification.

The commit message is incorrect - the flags haven't been removed.

-- 
Tanu