From ArchWiki

I don't know who wrote this:

cat ./patchname | grep +EXTRAVERSION=

but he wins a useless use of cat award ;)

Issues with 2.6.24 custom kernels

As you probably all know, this page needs updating for 2.6.24 (and future kernel versions) for the custom kernel to provide sources for things such as nvidia and vmware. See this thread for more information.

I think we should correct the path to the original Arch config: on my system it's placed in /var/abs/core/kernel26/