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

On June 25, 2026 thus sayeth Sebastian Andrzej Siewior:
> 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 ;)

Yeah I should probably be better at thanking everyone for providing the 
stable branches. Thank you all :)

> 
> > > 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.

Did we decide to skip v6.18 ? There are a few people internally asking 
me for a roadmap again with some guidance on the lifetime of the branch.

~Bryan