Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: replace magic numbers with named constants
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Apr 13 2026 - 01:41:10 EST
On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 10:51:16AM +0530, Adith Joshua wrote:
> Hi Dan, Luka,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> Made some careless errors there... sorry about that
>
> Looking at it again, I see that the BCNTCFG field mapping in my patch is
> wrong (I swapped AIFS and CW in the naming). The TBTT_PROHIBIT suffix was
> also an assumption based on a vague comment, which I shouldn’t have relied
> on.
>
> I was looking at:
> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-7.1.0_r0.2/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/rtl8188e_spec.h#296
>
> and also cross-referencing with rtw88:
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/reg.h
>
> And no, this wasn’t AI generated 🙂(I know the choice of emoji could be
> better)
>
> I'll send a v2 with these corrections.
>
Please don't bother.
This explanation is again far too vague to be checked. I would
prefer to leave it as-is until we are more sure that the information
is correct. Misleading documentation is worse than having none.
regards,
dan carpenter