On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Matthew Fairley wrote:
> Sort of answers the question but not entirely. I was running SuSE 6.1 with a
> 2.2.5 kernel but upgraded to a 2.2.12 (trying in vain to get rid of my serial
> driver 'problem' and other niggles) but if I do 'uname -r' I get 2.2.5 as the
> kernel version not 2.2.12. So where is proc getting it's info on my kernel
> version?
If uname -r says version 1.2.3 then your running version 1.2.3 its as
easy as that.
You possably did not rerun lilo after editing lilo.conf and coping
the new image to /boot or whereever you place them.
> Also, in response to the recommendation for my serial
driver query that I > removed the file serial.o from
/lib/modules/'uname -r'/misc, I went a step > further and renamed my
whole /lib/modules/2.2.5 directory to > /lib/modules/old.2.2.5 and
then renamed /lib/modules/2.2.12 as > /lib/modules/2.2.5 and got a
load of error messages - hardly surprising I > suppose. Although I
recently compiled my kernel without any modules it still > wants to
load modules. Where does 'insmod' get called from if that's the right
> question? >
> I think I'm getting there but I stil need pointing in the right direction!!
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> > Hey, Lawson,
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> > I think that this looks like the right answer - I am going to try it right
> > now. But this raises another question for me. Where does 'uname' get it's
> > information from? It's probably obvious so apologies in advance if I'm being
> a
> > bit dense :^)
> >
>
> uname either makes a kernel call to find out this information, or looks
> in /proc/sys/kernel, which has a bunch of files with this kind of info.
>
> proc is a filesystem held in memory that the kernel sets up on boot and
> mantains while the system is running
>
> hope this answers your question
>
> greg
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