[ale] Kernel Versions

[Fulton Green]

The numbering you're looking at is Red Hat's own versioning for the kernel.
The number to the right of the dash represents patches that have been applied
and/or builds using newer versions of compilers/assemblers/libs/etc. in the
toolchain.

RH releases a companion source code package (RPM) for each kernel binary
package they release. Have you tried applying your patches there?

Also, if you've installed the kernel-headers package (which I believe is
req'd for gcc and/or glibc), gcc may be using those headers in
/usr/include/asm and /usr/include instead of their counterparts in
/usr/src/linux/include .

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:40:18PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> For kernel versions, what does the last number mean?
> 
> For exapmle.
> 
> 2.2.16-22  Where does to 22 come from?
> 
> I'm using 2.2.12-20 on RRH 6.0 and had problems rebuilding 2.2.12 with some
> patches.  I dowloaded 2.2.12 from ftp.kernel.org and I do not want to
> rebuild
> all my modules.  the modules reside in /lib/modules/2.2.12-20  Is there
> anything I need to do to make sure the version '20' is on my kernel?
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