a kernel compilation question

[Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com>]

The debian reference manual says there are two ways, the debian standard 
method:

http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-debian

and the classic method:

http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-classic

where the first uses a kernel deb package and lots of nice 
debian-make-it-simple utilities, while the second uses the method 
outlined in the documentation distributed with the kernels source.

Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the 
latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use "make-kpkg clean" and 
"make-kpkg kernel_image" (which I like)?

Thanks