slink-only system, kernel version ceiling?

[alice]

At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm going to brave the wild 
and wooly world of kernel recompilation. (mostly for sound card and 
at some point a zip drive) If my system is still slink-only is there some 
kernel version beyond which I should not try to go? (in other words, 
is slink compatible with all the recent stable kernel versions out there?)
Alice M. Pinard
Casco Indemnity Company
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