You're better off doing that anyway. I don't have a stock kernel in anything I own or work on. Just remember.... module module module! Get te latest source and have a ball.
Hopefully you are using GRUB. If your machine fails to boot you just boot into the older kernel (you didn't delete it, right?) and fix the new one.
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