Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8723bs: fix unchecked return value of skb_copy_bits

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 05:28:33PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 04:03:37PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 04:59:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:22:41PM +0900, Minu Jin wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > > +	signed int ret;
> > > 
> > > Don't put a blank line in the middle of the declaration block.  Just do
> > > "int ret;".  Everyone knows "int" is signed.  Don't follow the local
> > > style when the local style is wrong.  Also only use s32 when it's part
> > > of a networking or hardware spec.  Just use int.  Do people imagine that
> > > we'll change int to be unsigned?
> > 
> > Not in a far past we changed char to be unsigned :-)
> > 
> > *Yes I know that it's a bit different case.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> char was always unsigned on s390 and the s390 devs were really militant
> about avoiding declaring variables as "unsigned char" so they'd write
> all their arch/s390/ code to look like:
> 
> 	if (char_variable == 255) {
> 
> I guess they were annoyed at the rest of the world who declared their
> variables as "char" when it should have been "signed char".  They stuck
> to their guns and defeated the rest of us in the end.  It's some kind of
> life lesson or potentially a message of hope?  :P

s390 always is 5-10 years ahead of where everyone else will eventually
get to.  It's fun to watch people slowly realize this :)