Comment 9 for bug 521967

I strongly agree with Bernhard. This will certainly be leaving lucid in a bad light. I believe it's bad enough if users will have to install the backports-modules package to get things working, which AFAIU is not in a default install. But if on top of that they'll have to also add another repository (I believe -updates isn't enabled by default, either) you're looking at hordes of frustrated users I'm afraid.

What's holding this back? As I've said numerous times, I'm happily using the upstream patch for a while now. There is also an adapted version for the 2.6.32 kernel. I think it needs some minor tweaking to cleanly apply on top of the Ubuntu patches. I do have such a version. I'd happily provide a debdiff, but kernel building in Ubuntu has become increasingly difficult during the last couple of releases to the point that I believe only the people doing it everyday can accomplish the task during a reasonable time span.

I've been trying to compile a Ubuntu kernel from git with the patch applied. When I overcome the hurdles, I'll be happy to upload that kernel to my PPA and publish my git tree somewhere.