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Message-ID: <20090530114632.7f101b9a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 11:46:32 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
vvscore@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250: Fix oops from setserial
> 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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