This reverts commit 
6d01bb9dc82a60580f749062a48cb47cd5caca07.
The exact same code was added in commit 
3239fd31d4 (serial: of-serial: fetch
line number from DT) a few lined above. Doing this once should be enough.
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
        if (of_find_property(np, "no-loopback-test", NULL))
                port->flags |= UPF_SKIP_TEST;
 
-       ret = of_alias_get_id(np, "serial");
-       if (ret >= 0)
-               port->line = ret;
-
        port->dev = &ofdev->dev;
 
        switch (type) {