Thanks a lot for the clarification. Very useful info. 14 Янв 2017 г. 14:13 пользователь "Sven Hartge" <[email protected]> написал:
> Вадим Колчев <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have up-to-date stable Jessie installation and noticed interesting thing. > > My kernel release is different from kernel-version. Is this okay? > > Yes, it is. > > > If yes, > why is this so? > > > uname -r > > 3.16.0-4-amd64 > > This is what is called the Kernel-ABI. All modules compiled for > "3.16.0-4-amd64" will be compatible with all kernels providing this. > > The kernel team aims to keep this ABI as stable as possible to avoid > the need to recompile all external modules every time a kernel is > updated. > > If the kernel changes in an incompatible way, then this string will be > changed, for example to "3.16.0-5-amd64", meaning every out-of-tree > kernel module needs to be recompiled. > > > uname -v > > #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) > > This is the real kernel version. > > S° > > -- > Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. > >
