Growing major version
Growing major version
Posted Feb 16, 2026 7:25 UTC (Mon) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)In reply to: Growing major version by mathstuf
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window
The comment at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/... says:
/*
* Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
* Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
* And we map 4.x and later versions to 2.6.60+x, so 4.0/5.0/6.0/... would be
* 2.6.60.
*/
You can check if you distro does not patch it more with `setarch --uname-2.6 uname -r`. For me, `6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64` gets mapped to `2.6.78-200.fc43.x86_64`.