[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 4/5] alsa-mixer: Remove the name option in the General section from path configuration files.

[David Henningsson]

On 04/17/2012 10:08 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> The option is pointless, as far as I can see.

Actually, it is being used as a lookup key to well known descriptions.

I believe we should
  - let the "name" correspond to the file name and be a unique key
  - replace "name" with something else, maybe "description-key" in lack 
of a better idea, which is used as this lookup key
  - after this is done, recheck how we do duplicates. There was a 
routine that placed indices on names and descriptions if it found more 
than one, but I might have broken it... :-/

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