kernelversion(1)

kernelversion1

Program to report major version of kernel

Usage

kernelversion

Overview

kernelversion is a small program for Debian/GNU Linux to report the major version of the kernel. This version is used by the modutils package to calculate the directories for kernel modules. See /etc/modules.conf for a sample usage.

Options

kernelversion simply ignores any arguments you give.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 1.3–2.0
  2. 2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0–4.0

Author

This manual page was written by Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

From modutils 2.4.27.0-6 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.