I understand that, but my point is that the only way to make this project succeed (out of your business of course) is to push to upstream (LKML). Stick with 2.

I understand that, but my point is that the only way to make this project succeed (out of your business of course) is to push to upstream (LKML). Stick with 2.6 and backported patches are not near of newer kernels distributed as part of RHEL 7 (3.10.x).