From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.migadu.com (out-138.mta1.migadu.com [95.215.58.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C0E64A387A for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:17:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.138 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792095426; cv=none; b=pyREK3nJGPUFTl7IG60xr+6dZFg79PD80qXH7prExG2MOZEbj177MNGprIMnmx5+L0ct/qWlDPna5AB5spxdYeST/YN1Ibc7BYndq2pSHLWdZvjhoCWRKFmA1jcEis9yOaOLQuhFb6L+thmMXk/r6YPzFxU5wxvrHxtVUB2faG8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792095426; c=relaxed/simple; bh=MYXLiVTLg/DCzZKSclfoxj5H3WsaJ7br5zXoPYN9bS4=; h=MIME-Version:Date:Content-Type:From:Message-ID:Subject:To:Cc: In-Reply-To:References; b=egvDr81wOFqwOB6VxJR3mWpcG0J80z4ssxe73cZRRvRKI2E3q76YD50wn819issrBJxTljI6V4V4CIW0Te7N8QgNanFmz3Ygt7yoFq/HFaqpmNvhrypAXcQ/nVClD6+W2hgJ5EHNCK7lRO5DtGREuO13NUwWQ/wcNho7e0lLIZM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=oXjFiJ7z; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.138 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="oXjFiJ7z" X-Envelope-To: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=MYXLiVTLg/DCzZKSclfoxj5H3WsaJ7br5zXoPYN9bS4=; c=simple/simple; d=linux.dev; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1792095423; v=1; x=1792700223; b=oXjFiJ7z5Lbh2bw46PbToAZiulXeta2aFyDP03G5P8AQ/He7YhOHG3Waz6F08Gwi7ZTM0/FU zcYgheWnt1aBXHKSH2vLBw9rkRxh56c7nC52w0TEhxDYXbHTgtHvt7BU8Ub7W2jcE7OogzI0/BX KtqlGoKhzrmfsdZm5ekHl0ho= X-Envelope-To: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Received: by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id 0b35ae72c49bde15; Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:17:02 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: 0b35ae72c49bde15 X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:17:02 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "Luka Gejak" Message-ID: TLS-Required: No Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove unnecessary parentheses To: "Dan Carpenter" , "Ethan Tidmore" Cc: pavankumaryalagada@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev, dennylin0707@gmail.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <672f78b36290a4021d3f94d9ec401d23420febbc@linux.dev> References: <20261015120634.95218-1-pavankumaryalagada@gmail.com> <5d577cb1b4a91e8cdfda171bc7100105ae90d91e@linux.dev> <672f78b36290a4021d3f94d9ec401d23420febbc@linux.dev> October 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM, "Luka Gejak" wrote: >=20 >=20October 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM, "Dan Carpenter" wrot= e: >=20 >=20>=20 >=20> On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 10:41:53AM -0500, Ethan Tidmore wrote: > >=20=20 >=20>=20=20 >=20> On Thu Oct 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM CDT, Luka Gejak wrote: > > October 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM, pavankumaryalagada@gmail.com wrote: > >=20=20 >=20>=20=20 >=20> From: Yalagada Pavan Kumar > >=20=20 >=20> Remove redundant parentheses around the address-of operator to > > follow kernel coding style. > >=20=20 >=20> Signed-off-by: Yalagada Pavan Kumar > > --- > >=20=20 >=20> Hi Yalagada, > >=20=20 >=20> I'm just letting you know that this change is no longer needed as = the > > entire staging/rtl8723bs driver is being deprecated and removed. > > Support for RTL8723BS has been ported to rtw88 subsystem. > >=20=20 >=20> So rtl8723bs patches aren't being accepted anymore? I saw Dan revi= ewing > > one earlier, just wondering. > >=20=20 >=20> I didn't know it was being removed. My expectation is that we'll > > probably keep merging patches until it's actually removed. It's some= times > > easier to just merge easy uncontroversial things without trying to t= rack > > everything happening in the kernel. We should obviously delete the d= river > > as soon as the other patch is merged. > >=20=20 >=20> regards, > > dan carpenter > >=20 >=20But won't that cause a conflict? PR has been sent today, carrying my > patch that removes whole staging/rtl8723bs into net-next and if > another patch is merged into staging-next, whose time of commit is > later than the time I made my commit localy it will try to exit a > non-existent file. >=20 >=20And since both net-next tree and staging-next tree are merged at the > same merge window this will cause merge conflict. Correct me if I am > wrong, but this is what I think would happen. >=20 >=20Best regards, > Luka Gejak > To clarify something: new driver, which replaces staging rtl8723bs and the mentioned patch which removes the rtl8723bs from staging, have been merged into wireless-next and are awaiting to merged into the net-next and eventually mainline when 7.4 merge window opens. Best regards, Luka Gejak