linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 8250: Fix oops from setserial

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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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