From 57b9dab27cb05df8fa629dc9f8215cbaf2899be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:42:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] manually revert ec8cf4e4 with an extra comment explaining the
 significance

---
 libs/pbd/controllable.cc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libs/pbd/controllable.cc b/libs/pbd/controllable.cc
index a1144286ad..2e4b169c53 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/controllable.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/controllable.cc
@@ -115,7 +115,11 @@ Controllable::get_state ()
 	 *  Bytes: 0xB5 0x2D 0x69 0x6E
 	 *          <Controllable name="�-iness" id="2391" flags="" value="0.000000000000" p
 	 */
-	//node->add_property (X_("name"), _name); // not reloaded from XML state, just there to look at
+
+	// this is not reloaded from XML, but it must be present because it is
+	// used to find and identify XML nodes by various Controllable-derived objects
+
+	node->add_property (X_("name"), _name);
 
 	id().print (buf, sizeof (buf));
 	node->add_property (X_("id"), buf);