Re: Conflict for v5.15-rt

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:34:38 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.stable-rt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-09-26 15:20:35 [-0400], Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hey Stable Folks,
Hi,

> While creating the real-time stable kernel, v5.15-rt68, I ran into a
> conflict.  The conflict occurred while merging in upstream stable 5.15.133
> due to the following commit:
> f980bf1586ef ("printk: Consolidate console deferred printing")  Upstream
> commit 696ffaf50e1f
> 
> I was wondering if you came across this commit for v6.1-rt yet, Clark?  If
> you did, how did you proceed with the backport?  For v5.15-rt, there is the
> following patch that touches the same code, so I wanted to be careful:
> 0009-printk-call-boot_delay_msec-in-printk_delay.patch - [PATCH 009/171]
> printk: call boot_delay_msec() in printk_delay()
> 
> I wanted to run this buy you all prior to backporting, and ensure I follow
> what all other stable versions plan on doing.

I dropped that patch while doing v5.19-rc1-rt1. It was merged as
   1f47e8af45fdd ("printk: call boot_delay_msec() in printk_delay()")

meaning Clark shouldn't have any problems related to this.

Would looking at later RT kernel help? As of v6.6-rc1-rt1 the printk
code is mostly the same.

> Thanks,
> 
> Joe

Sebastian