Re: Question about the maintenance of OOT RT patches for LTS releases (v12.x and v18.x)

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 2026-06-24 08:14:51 [-0300], Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
> Sebastian, just to make sure I understood your answer, then we don't need
> to keep the OOT patches up-to-date for v6.18-rt specifically? My question

I did update v6.18 recently. I do think at the very least the 8250 bits
are important in case something goes wrong.

> came from comments raised on the last two RT maintainers meetings and the
> LF RT Board meeting. I just want to have a good answer if somebody else
> asks about that. And to volunteer if work is needed.

There isn't a lot that clashes in v6.12 and it is even less in v6.18.
However the printk/ serial changes in v6.18 caused some fallout exactly
there.
Hopefully we get the 8250 bits by the end of the year including i915 and
then we have just powerpc left and that one sysfs file and we can call
it a day.

> Best,
> Luis

Sebastian