The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
Chapter 9 - Debian and the kernel
9.1 Can I install and compile a kernel without some Debian-specific tweaking?
Yes.
There's only one common catch: the Debian C libraries are built with the most
recent stable releases of the kernel headers. If you
happen to need to compile a program with kernel headers newer than the ones
from the stable branch, then you should either upgrade the package containing
the headers (libc6-dev), or use the new headers from an unpacked
tree of the newer kernel. That is, if the kernel sources are in
/usr/src/linux, then you should add
-I/usr/src/linux/include/ to your command line when compiling.
