Plans for Kernel update for 8.04LTS ?

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 09:09 +0200, anon677 at web.de wrote:
> Dear Kernel Team Members,
> 
> do you have plans to update the kernel in Ubuntu 8.04LTS from 2.6.24.x to 2.6.26 ? A search for an answer found no "official" statements. Therefore I would like to ask the developers.
> 
> The backgrund of the question is that 2.6.26 has greatly enhanced support for new drivers (which new hardware unfortunately requires). Which other possibilities exist without building an own kernel if no update plans would exist? Do you plan to make available more backports or do one has to change from LTS to a newer Ubuntu release?

No, we have no plans to upgrade the kernel. If you look at the hardy
kernel, you will see a pretty heavy schedule of updates flowing into it,
including some backported drivers.

What hardware are you looking at? I didn't notice any extremely
important new drivers in 2.6.26 kernel.

> Best regards
> Max
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