building the linux-2.6.17.7 kernel with speakup

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I have sucessfully patch and got rid of the orag files in the kernel 
source tree.  Possibley this is something that the next version of the 
checkout script could do.  My question is I want to build the 2.6.17.7 
kernel now I use debian 3.1 sarge and am using the netinstall iso to install 
it.  It is running 2.4.27-2speakup What can I do to carry the configuration 
over with as little work as possible to the new 2.6.17.7 patched with 
speakup.  It would really be nice if speakup was included in the main kernel 
source.