Comment 34 for bug 405390

ken,
     Usually the only time we backport a fix to an earlier kernel is if it meets the justification for SRU. For cases like this one, we push the updates to the current version of the kernel only.

Not knowing more about the patch than I do, I have no way to tell you if it will be trivial to apply as there could be dependencies required that are only available in the newer kernel.

I hope this helps,

-JFo