Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: mctrl_gpio: Check if GPIO property exisits before requesting it

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:11:16PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> This patch adds a check for the GPIOs property existence, before the
> GPIO is requested. This fixes an issue seen when the 8250 mctrl_gpio
> support is added (2nd patch in this patch series) on x86 platforms using
> ACPI. Please find a details problem description here:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/9/357

Can you change this to a lore.kernel.org link instead?

Actually, just put the information in here, no one should ever have to
search somewhere else to determine what happened in a changelog entry.

thanks,

greg k-h