I have an embedded system running Debian. It is supposed to auto-update in order to pull in security fixes. But Debian's default kernel lacks a hardware driver that this system needs, so it will need to run a self-compiled kernel.Is there a way to request that, whenever a new kernel-source package comes out, the system should make oldconfig with the addition of that one config change we need, and install and use the resulting kernel binary?Alternatively, if that's impossible for Debian, is there a distribution with similar long-term-stable qualities (so... not exactly Gentoo) that allows doing this?
What's the Debian way to retain a kernel config change through updates?
debian;kernel;package management