i'm now getting regardless of the config a question whether i'd like to enable this and that when i issue the command:
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-botnetgodalphamale kernel_image kernel_headers
"Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers (EXPERIMENTAL) [N/y/?] n
Local version - append to kernel release (LOCALVERSION) []
Automatically append version information to the version string (LOCALVERSION_AUTO) [N/y/?] n
Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap) (SWAP) [Y/n/?] y
System V IPC (SYSVIPC) [Y/n/?] y
BSD Process Accounting (BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) [Y/n/?] y
BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format (BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3) [Y/n/?] y
Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL) (TASKSTATS) [N/y/?] n
Auditing support (AUDIT) [Y/n/?] y
Enable system-call auditing support (AUDITSYSCALL) [N/y/?] n
Kernel .config support (IKCONFIG) [N/m/y/?] n
Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB) (LOG_BUF_SHIFT) [14] 14
Control Group support (CGROUPS) [N/y/?] n
Group CPU scheduler (GROUP_SCHED) [Y/n/?] (NEW) "
i don't want to go thru them all, i'd just like to compile the darn kernel like It used to compile.