Many organisations need to run the LTS releases, to be able to deploy a server/login/dev box and get good use from it for >24 months, rather than track the upstream releases.
Thus, we do need to add this patch to the 8.04 LTS kernel, or let Ubuntu's reputation be dented; since we want Ubuntu to penetrate the server space, this kind of thing is key.
Many organisations need to run the LTS releases, to be able to deploy a server/login/dev box and get good use from it for >24 months, rather than track the upstream releases.
Thus, we do need to add this patch to the 8.04 LTS kernel, or let Ubuntu's reputation be dented; since we want Ubuntu to penetrate the server space, this kind of thing is key.