LTS kernel in jessie-backports

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Dear Debian Kernel Team,

My primary area of interest is btrfs on Debian.  The most reliable way
of limiting one's risk while using this experimental file system is to
run the most recent LTS kernel, and to minimize the use of exotic
features, or in some cases not use them at all (eg: RAID56 which
doesn't yet have proven scrub/self healing support).  In the interest
of providing the most stable btrfs experience to users of Debian
stable, would it be possible to fork the jessie-backport of src:linux
from 4.4.6-1, update it to 4.4.11-1, and then continue to maintain the
branch?

I believe I am underqualified to maintain it myself, but if it would
be sufficient to learn the workflow of patch-level updates to the
src:linux-derived package, then I might be able to help with the
effort.

Kind regards,
Nicholas