This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
serial-8250_pci-add-amazon-pci-serial-device-id.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3bfd1300abfe3adb18e84a89d97a0e82a22124bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:31:31 -0800
Subject: serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID
From: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3bfd1300abfe3adb18e84a89d97a0e82a22124bb upstream.
This device will be used in future Amazon EC2 instances as the primary
serial port (i.e., data sent to this port will be available via the
GetConsoleOuput [1] EC2 API).
[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_GetConsoleOutput.html
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
@@ -5568,6 +5568,9 @@ static struct pci_device_id serial_pci_t
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1601, 0x0800), .driver_data = pbn_b0_4_1250000 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1601, 0xa801), .driver_data = pbn_b0_4_1250000 },
+ /* Amazon PCI serial device */
+ { PCI_DEVICE(0x1d0f, 0x8250), .driver_data = pbn_b0_1_115200 },
+
/*
* These entries match devices with class COMMUNICATION_SERIAL,
* COMMUNICATION_MODEM or COMMUNICATION_MULTISERIAL
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from msw@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/serial-8250_pci-add-amazon-pci-serial-device-id.patch