What is the recommended way to keep your responses to the kernel configuration options when using the debian kernel package tools?
I built a 2.4.2 kernel, and would now like to build 2.4.6. I'm concerned that simply copying the .config file (name is from memory) is risky because options may get added or removed (even if it happens to be safe for the 2.4.2 -> 2.4.6 move). Do the package install scripts do anyhting clever (seems unlikely since they don't know where I actually built the kernal)? While I'm in kernel land, is there a way to get the alsa drivers to be built automatically as part of the kernel build (again, using the alsa-source debian package)? I tried before, but didn't have much luck. Is it possible to, e.g., build the 2.4.6 kernel with alsa drivers while running 2.4.2? Or do the drivers end up targetted to the current kernel at the time they were built?
