1 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
2 /*
3  * Utility routines.
4  *
5  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
6  *
7  * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
8  */
9 #include "libbb.h"
10 /* After libbb.h, since it needs sys/types.h on some systems */
11 #include <sys/utsname.h>  /* for uname(2) */
12 
13 /* Returns current kernel version encoded as major*65536 + minor*256 + patch,
14  * so, for example,  to check if the kernel is greater than 2.2.11:
15  *
16  *     if (get_linux_version_code() > KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,11)) { <stuff> }
17  */
get_linux_version_code(void)18 int FAST_FUNC get_linux_version_code(void)
19 {
20 	struct utsname name;
21 	char *t;
22 	int r;
23 
24 	uname(&name); /* never fails */
25 	t = name.release - 1;
26 	r = 1;
27 	do {
28 		r <<= 8;
29 		if (t) {
30 			r += atoi(++t);
31 			t = strchr(t, '.');
32 		}
33 	} while (r < 0x1000000);
34 	return r - 0x1000000;
35 }
36