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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:16:26 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Ashmit Kumar Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] staging: rtl8723bs: clean up SIZE_PTR usage and remove custom macro Message-ID: References: <20261018164403.14921-1-work.ashmitkumar@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261018164403.14921-1-work.ashmitkumar@gmail.com> On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 04:43:59PM +0000, Ashmit Kumar wrote: > This patch series cleans up the custom macro SIZE_PTR (__kernel_size_t) > across the rtl8723bs driver as part of addressing the TODO item to > "convert any remaining unusual variable types". > > Instead of a mechanical substitution, each occurrence has been converted > to its idiomatic kernel equivalent: > 1. Replace open-coded pointer alignments with the standard PTR_ALIGN() > macro, removing an unused variable left behind. > 2. Remove redundant pointer-to-integer casts where pointer arithmetic or > pointer arguments are already sufficient. > 3. Replace the remaining pointer-to-integer address casts with uintptr_t, > use size_t for alignment offsets, and delete the custom SIZE_PTR macro > definition entirely. > > Ashmit Kumar (3): > staging: rtl8723bs: use PTR_ALIGN() for pointer alignment > staging: rtl8723bs: remove unnecessary pointer-to-integer casts > staging: rtl8723bs: replace SIZE_PTR with uintptr_t and remove > definition This driver has been deleted in linux-next. regards, dan carpenter