[oss-devel] ossxmix patch to ignore empty mixer groups

[Clive Wright]

Zakhar Levchenko wrote:
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> Hi Clive,
> 
> I've attached output of ossmix -D. Group 2 is definitely affected by 
> your patch. As you can see group 3 follows this group and they have the 
> same parent (0), so group 2 is ignored. On the other hand group 2 is the 
> parent of such controls as ENVY24_RATE, ENVY24_SYNC etc.
> 
> I also have attached my own patch to ossxmix that should ignore empty 
> groups correctly. Could you please try it and see if it solves problems 
> with empty groups and does not cause any other troubles? It works fine 
> for me, that is all controls are shown, but I can't check if it ignores 
> empty groups in practice (though theoretically it should).
> 
> Regards,
>            Zakhar Levchenko

Hi  Zakhar,

I haven't had chance to study the code in detail yet but it does solve 
the problems with empty groups and does not appear to cause any other 
troubles.

kind regards,

Clive