Patch "serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Matt Wilson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:31:31 -0800
Subject: serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID

From: Matt Wilson <[email protected]>

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

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -5797,6 +5797,9 @@ 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 [email protected] are

queue-4.4/serial-8250_pci-add-amazon-pci-serial-device-id.patch