Having trouble building kernel to debug suspend/resume

[Tabor Kelly]

Hello,

I'm trying to debug kerrnel panics on suspend/resume on a Dell XPS 13
laptop. In the process I am attempting to set CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=y,
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y, and CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_PL2303=y (I do have
a pl2303 adapter) as described here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelDebuggingTricks

However, now when I try to build the kernel (as described here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel) I get the following
errors (after 'fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic'):
Debug: module-check-generic
install -d /work/ubuntu-vivid/debian.master/abi/3.19.0-18.18/amd64
find /work/ubuntu-vivid/debian/build/build-generic/ -name \*.ko | \
sed -e 's/.*\/\([^\/]*\)\.ko/\1/' | sort >
/work/ubuntu-vivid/debian.master/abi/3.19.0-18.18/amd64/generic.modules
II: Checking modules for generic...
   reading new modules...read 4280 modules.
   reading old modules...
      MISS: pl2303
      MISS: usbserial
      read 4282 modules : new(0)  missing(2)
EE: Missing modules (start begging for mercy)
debian/rules.d/4-checks.mk:12: recipe for target 'module-check-generic' failed

I did modify debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu by hand. I
would love to rename the kernel to something special, but I am not
sure how. I did notice that it looks like the name comes from
UNAME_RELEASE, but I couldn't figure out where or how it gets set.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Tabor

PS - I'm trying to build the Ubuntu-3.19.0-18.18 tag from the git repo.
PPS -  I'm running Xubuntu 15.04 and 3.19.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP
Tue May 19 18:31:35 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux,