linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/4] staging: rtl8723bs: remove unused diagnostic

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Message-ID: <20260128004009.51095-1-ethantidmore06@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:40:04 -0600
From: Ethan Tidmore <ethantidmore06@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ethan Tidmore <ethantidmore06@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] staging: rtl8723bs: remove unused diagnostic

This series performs a driver-wide audit and cleanup of dead diagnostic 
code within the rtl8723bs staging driver.

The vendor-originated code included a variety of diagnostic counters 
housed within 'struct debug_priv'. These counters were updated 
throughout the driver's hot paths—including MLME, receive, power 
control, and SDIO allocation—but were never read, exposed via 
debugfs, or utilized for any internal logic.

This series removes the write-only counters, the skeletal functions 
used to update them, and cleans up the resulting unused pointers 
and logic blocks.

Changes in v2:
- Expanded the series to include the removal of RX FIFO overflow 
  logic in hal_com.c.

Ethan Tidmore (4):
  staging: rtl8723bs: remove dead RX info reset logic
  staging: rtl8723bs: remove dead RX FIFO overflow logic
  staging: rtl8723bs: remove dead RX sequence logic
  staging: rtl8723bs: remove unused struct debug_priv and all counters

 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c     | 12 -----
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c |  3 --
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c  |  6 +--
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c     | 23 +--------
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com.c       | 19 --------
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_dm.c   |  7 ---
 .../staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c |  4 --
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_halinit.c  |  8 +---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h | 41 ----------------
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/hal_com.h   |  1 -
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/os_intfs.c   | 14 ++----
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c  | 48 +++++--------------
 12 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)

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