linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_ieee80211: remove unnecessary void * casts

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Message-ID: <20260209235133.1292161-4-horstaufmental@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:51:29 +0700
From: Siwanan Bungtong <horstaufmental@...il.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Siwanan Bungtong <horstaufmental@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_ieee80211: remove unnecessary void * casts

Remove redundant (void *) casts when calling memcpy/memset and
other helpers. These casts are unnecessary since C implicitly
converts to void * and they only add noise.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Siwanan Bungtong <horstaufmental@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
index 8fdeeda88a6d..d9746679a5f0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int rtw_check_network_type(unsigned char *rate, int ratelen, int channel)
 u8 *rtw_set_fixed_ie(unsigned char *pbuf, unsigned int len, unsigned char *source,
 				unsigned int *frlen)
 {
-	memcpy((void *)pbuf, (void *)source, len);
+	memcpy(pbuf, source, len);
 	*frlen = *frlen + len;
 	return pbuf + len;
 }
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ u8 *rtw_set_ie(u8 *pbuf,
 	*(pbuf + 1) = (u8)len;
 
 	if (len > 0)
-		memcpy((void *)(pbuf + 2), (void *)source, len);
+		memcpy(pbuf + 2, source, len);
 
 	*frlen = *frlen + (len + 2);
 
-- 
2.52.0