Any caveats to backporting latest maverick kernel to Lucid?

[Albert Wagner]

On 07/31/2010 05:51 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:27:22 -0500
> Albert Wagner<albertwagner at cox.net>  wrote:
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>> I subscribe to bugs.launchpad for bug #528457 (gpu hung drm i915 intel). I recently received a report from there that backporting the most recent maverick kernel, 2.6.35.12-generic to lucid 10.04 fixed this bug. I would like to try this. Is this unwise for any reason?  Can I undo it easily if it doesn't perform as expected?
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> Your current kernel(s) will still be available through grub so it is easy to go back if required.
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Thank you, Yorvyk.