How to get LTS kernel on Tumbleweed?

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Hello,

I’m running tumbleweed, but need for some (older) kernel modules the 4.4 LTS kernel.
I already found this tutorial which explains the basic procedure. However, I’m wondering whether I can or should do the

# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config

step to copy the current 4.9 kernel config to build a 4.4 kernel.
Should I stick with the default kernel config? Should I try to fetch the kernel config e.g. from 13.1/13.2/Leap ?

Is there anything else I should be careful with or any issues that can occur when switching to the LTS kernel?

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Then why not use the LTS kernel provided by and for openSUSE (42.2 in this case)?

Either the ones found in

http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/oss/

or those from

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-42.2/standard/

AK

P.S. If you are not working for some three letter agency and the kernel modules in question are not some state secret, then tell us which modules they are (and give us a link to the source), maybe they can be (or even have already been) patched for newer kernels.