2.4.2 Kernel at SuSE ftp site

I orginally used the 2.4.2 kernel from kernel.org, could not get the modules working. I downloaded the linux-2.4.2.SuSE-1.tgz from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/ That kernel compiled and worked fine without any problems. What is different? Are their big changes that need to be done to use a new kernel with SuSE or is it just the location? I used YaST and it placed everything in /linux-2.4.2.SuSE . I was previously using /usr/src thanks in advance joe