From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pranav Desai <contact.pranavdesai@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8723bs: replace uint with u32 in hal_intf.[ch]
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 23:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026100644-willing-nucleus-82ce@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006200751.819332-2-contact.pranavdesai@gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 01:37:50AM +0530, Pranav Desai wrote:
> The non-standard 'uint' type was used for the return values of
> rtw_hal_init() and rtw_hal_deinit(), as well as their internal
> 'status' variables.
>
> Since the underlying hardware-specific functions
> (rtl8723bs_hal_init() and rtl8723bs_hal_deinit()) explicitly
> return u32, replace these 'uint' occurrences with 'u32' to match
> the underlying types and conform to the kernel coding style.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pranav Desai <contact.pranavdesai@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_intf.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/hal_intf.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_intf.c
> index 1443875d1369..1290631a2158 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_intf.c
> @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ static void rtw_hal_init_opmode(struct adapter *padapter)
> rtw_setopmode_cmd(padapter, networkType, false);
> }
>
> -uint rtw_hal_init(struct adapter *padapter)
> +u32 rtw_hal_init(struct adapter *padapter)
That's very odd, shouldn't this be 'int' and return either 0 for
success, or -ERROR value for an error?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-06 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 20:07 [PATCH v2 0/2] staging: rtl8723bs: fix uint types in hal_intf and rtw_security Pranav Desai
2026-10-06 20:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8723bs: replace uint with u32 in hal_intf.[ch] Pranav Desai
2026-10-06 21:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-10-07 12:31 ` Pranav Desai
2026-10-06 20:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: rtl8723bs: replace uint with explicit types in rtw_security.c Pranav Desai
2026-10-06 21:06 ` Greg KH
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