From: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H@gmx.de>
To: Balaji Ravindran <b@w1an.in>
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation Question
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:10:33 +0100
Cc: Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Hi

On Saturday 21 November 2009, Balaji Ravindran wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried compiling the wireless 2.6 kernel on my debian machine using
> make-kpkg and being lazy, i just did make defconfig, and saw that my
> compilation went fine without any issues, but i noticed that there was
> no ramdisk image that was generated when i installed the linux-image*.deb.

For questions about Debian specific packaging helpers like 
kernel-package[1], you would better contact debian-user@lists.debian.org 
instead.

> i did use --initrd option,
[...]

Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz [2], it explains which 
hook scripts you have to configure for generating an initramfs, --initrd is
not sufficient anymore[3] (since kernel-package 12.000).

Also consider that the Debian kernel team considers kernel-package to be 
deprecated in favour of the upstream kernel build system's own 
"make deb-pkg" target[4]. 

Unrelated to this topic, I'd suggest to take the configs of your running 
(distribution-) kernel as starting point, because this likely introduces 
the least amount of surprise (ide vs. libata storage layer, etc.).

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel-package
[2]	http://git.debian.org/?p=users/srivasta/debian/kernel-package.git;a=blob;f=README (line 284ff)
[3]	http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj//blog/2009/04/07/Not_your_father__39__s_kernel-package/
[4]	http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2009/10/msg00613.html