Actually in a similar vein, I would be curious if there were plans to keep up with 2.6.16 in general after Adrian Bunk takes it over? If he really starts to stabilize a branch of 2.6 like I want, would be quiet happy and would be with 2.6.16 for a good while.
we're on 2.6.17 now, and we'll move on to newer kernels as they're released (sometimes skipping one or two versions , there is no support for previous versions.