Re: [PATCH] 8250: Fix oops from setserial

[Alan Cox]

> Sure, huge numbers of drivers use the cast.
> 
> But I've never seen past sinnings as being a reason to continue sinning. 
> Doing new code the right way doesn't result in worse code, and reduces
> the chances of someone copying and pasting the wrong way.

As I said please read the rest of the driver. It would ridiculous to have
one dereference done differently to the rest in several thousand lines of
code.

It's not a new driver, it's simply pasting a line from one place to
another to update a field.

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