Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: convert int16_t to s16

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 04:33:20PM +0200, deep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kenet Jovan Sokoli <deep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The TODO list for the rtl8723bs driver mentions the conversion of
> unusual variable types to the preferred kernel style. Convert the
> "power_limit" variable in include/wifi.h from int16_t to s16.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kenet Jovan Sokoli <deep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h
> index 230b2c4ffd3b..8ab0cb6ba344 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h
> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ struct rtw_regulatory {
>  	u32 tp_scale;
>  	u16 current_rd;
>  	u16 current_rd_ext;
> -	int16_t power_limit;
> +	s16 power_limit;

Generally, variables like s16 and s32 should only be used when they
are defined by a hardware or protocol spec.  You should just use
short and int for normal code.

In this case, the rtw_regulatory is never really used.  There are
a few functions which take it as a parameter they aren't used and
we always pass NULL pointers to them.

Cleanup the functions and then delete the whole struct rtw_regulatory
and struct.

regards,
dan carpenter

>  	struct regd_pair_mapping *regpair;
>  };