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

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

On 2026-06-25 09:35:19 [+0200], Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just adding one datapoint here in case someone is wondering if there
> are users out there? ;-)

Sure. Having an update from _any_ user feels good. At least the work is
used ;)

> > 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
> > 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.
> 
> We still use v6.12 LTS with PREEMPT_RT on arm32 (at91),
> and plan to use PREEMPT_RT on at91 (sam9x60, sama5d2) in the future.
> 
> If there are no regular patches for v6.18 we will probably skip that
> and use the LTS coming later this year.

I did assume we have v6.18 in maintenance but somehow it skipped. *I*
usually skip updates if there are no clashes and nothing changes.

> Greets
> Alex

Sebastian