[Building Sakai] A kernel branch in sakai?

[Jim Eng]

It's been a while since I've worked in kernel, and I'd appreciate help getting oriented.  

I made a branch from trunk of kernel that I'd like to build and deploy along with trunk of sakai and a new project that will be a client of some parts of my kernel build.  Other parts of sakai are also dependent on parts of kernel where I am working.

I will need to iterate a bit -- make changes in kernel and changes in this new project and then run them with each other.  

Is there a simple pattern for accomplishing that?  Do I have to shut down sakai, rebuild kernel, rebuild (and deploy) all of sakai, and then restart sakai?  Or are there any useful shortcuts to that process?

Appreciate any suggestions.

Jim