This is another set of cleanup patches: introduce a new standard helper for adding vmaster control elements, and replace the open code in a few drivers with it. Takashi === v1->v2: Cleanup of ac97 patch to drop unnecessary check of the error condition === Takashi Iwai (4): ALSA: vmaster: Add snd_ctl_add_followers() helper ALSA: ac97: Use the standard snd_ctl_add_followers() helper ALSA: ca0106: Use the standard snd_ctl_add_followers() helper ALSA: ice1712: Use the standard snd_ctl_add_followers() helper include/sound/control.h | 3 +++ sound/core/vmaster.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c | 16 +--------------- sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_mixer.c | 19 ++++++------------- sound/pci/ice1712/juli.c | 19 +++---------------- sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c | 15 +++------------ 6 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) -- 2.35.3