linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] staging: rtl8723bs: rtw

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Message-Id: <DGB12TC7CQVS.1NYPKU2YXLSF4@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:21:26 -0600
From: "Ethan Tidmore" <ethantidmore06@...il.com>
To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Ethan Tidmore"
 <ethantidmore06@...il.com>
Cc: "Siwanan Bungtong" <horstaufmental@...il.com>,
 <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_ap: remove unnecessary void
 * casts

On Mon Feb 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM CST, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 08:37:08PM -0600, Ethan Tidmore wrote:
>> On Mon Feb 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM CST, Siwanan Bungtong wrote:
>> > 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>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> You don't have to write the file name in your subject line, "staging:
>> rtl8723bs: ..." is preferred. Please resend this patch series with the
>> correct formatting.
>
> No, for this type of series, the filename makes sense.  The subjects
> would not be unique otherwise.
>
> So the subjects are fine here.

Understood, sorry about that Siwanan.

Thanks,

ET