make (menu)config
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.12_custom.1.0_<arch>.deb
These four steps work fine for me (though I'm still using 2.2.10).
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