Similar for RHEL4/3. This slows down kmdl updates as say for a new
nvidia driver one need to build kmdls for all these kernels in all
flavours/archs etc.

Or is there any other idea? What are Red Hat's, CentOS' policies wrt
support of kernels? ATrpms should probably just copy that policy and
drop kernel support once the respective upstream support drops it.

To me it seems that some packages linger in the upstream repos for very long. It's probably more than you have now.
http://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/

What I would like to see supported would be the stock versions included with the last two OS releases and also the latest errata kernel(s).

Ex:
For RHEL & CentOS 4.x:
- keep the kernel released with 4.5 (2.6.9-55.EL)
- keep the last errata kernel for 4.5 (2.6.9-55.0.12.EL)

- keep the kernel released with 4.6 (2.6.9-67.EL)
- keep the last 2 errata kernels for 4.6 (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL and 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL)

Then when 4.7 is released:
- keep the kernel released with 4.6 (2.6.9-67.EL)
- keep the last errata kernel with 4.6 (2.6.9-67.0.20.EL or later)
- keep the kernel released with 4.7 (2.6.9-???)
- keep the last 2 errata kernels for 4.7 (2.6.9-???)

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