Shreyas Bhatewara <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am writing a device driver for current and past versions of (Open)Solaris
>
> How can I check the version of the running kernel in the driver code ? I 
> tried using utsname.version (/.release) but it does not exist for Solaris 10 
> or older kernels. Is there any other literal/variable which spans current and 
> old Solaris kernels which can give the kernel version/ release information ? 
> For Eg : linux has LINUX_VERSION_CODE
>

Why do you need this? Solaris implements stable interfaces.

BTW: uname -v (utsname.version) exists since more than 20 years on SunOS.

Jörg

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