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LINUX_VERSION_CODE in c

Hi,
My Linux version is
Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
I am printing the value of LINUX_VERSION_CODE in c program which comes out to be 132116.

I also tried to get the value by KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,9) which is 132617 as [(2 << 16)+(6<<8)+9 ] .

Does LINUX_VERSION_CODE and KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,9) calculates value differently ?

Please correct me if I am wrong as I am understanding LINUX_VERSION_CODE and KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,9) .

Thanks

You can see these definitions in the top level Makefile of the Linux source tree. I pulled these from a 3.x series kernel source:

Code:

 986 define filechk_version.h

 987    (echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE $(shell                            \

 988    expr $(VERSION) \* 65536 + $(PATCHLEVEL) \* 256 + $(SUBLEVEL));    \

 989    echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))';)

 990 endef

But anyway, your program is probably printing the user-space value defined in /usr/include/linux/version.h. So what's in there? 132116 ? On my system, the value is equivalent to 3.0.14, which is NOT the running kernel version. Rather, it is the version associated with the Linux headers when they got installed. I have since moved on to 3.0.16, but no one (not a package nor me) has updated the headers, I guess.

Particularly, an update to that file (<linux/version.h>) would result from running a make headers_install in the linux source tree.

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