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I found that LINUX_VERSION_CODE defined in /usr/include/linux/version.h on my Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS machine is (equivalent to) 4.4.90, whereas it is expected to be 4.10.0.

bash% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

bash% bash% uname -r
4.10.0-28-generic

bash% cat /usr/include/linux/version.h 
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 263258
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

bash% perl
my $version=263258;
my $a=($version >> 16) & 0xff;
my $b=($version >> 8) & 0xff;
my $c=$version & 0xff;
print "$version -> $a.$b.$c\n";
263258 -> 4.4.90

Therefore, a preprocessor macro as following doesn't work.

#include <linux/version.h>
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4,9,0).
// do something
#endif

Does it mean that I have some installation problem? Or are we recommended not to use LINUX_VERSION_CODE on Ubuntu?

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It looks like you have a version specific kernel headers file installed that doesn't match your running kernel, probably. There used to be a meta-package that would keep the current one installed no matter what.

Here's the reference

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  • Hi RobotHumans, Thanks for help. The linux-headers and linux-headers-generic are installed as following, and the proper kernel headers can be found under /usr/src on my system. Are those packages expected to update headers /usr/include/linux/version.h as well? If so, my installation was somehow wrong. Or is the LINUX_VERSION_CODE in /usr/include/linux/version.h expected to be older than uname -r version?
    – Ryujiro Shibuya
    Dec 6, 2017 at 1:19
  • Might be a bug. The meta-package should mean that /usr/include/linux/version.h should reflect the latest mainline kernel version installed on your PC. Using PPAs will probably break it, but that's not a bug. That's you making it not work. So, if you installed a kernel edgers PPA, I would not expect the metapackage to reflect that data, but uname would.
    – RobotHumans
    Dec 6, 2017 at 1:37
  • Thanks. Let me check if any relevant PPA is installed on the system.
    – Ryujiro Shibuya
    Dec 6, 2017 at 2:30
  • I thought the dpkg installation of "linux-headers-4.10.0-28" and "linux-headers-4.10.0-28-generic" would be the kernel meta packages, but am I wrong? apt-get install linux-generic linux-headers-generic would attempt to install yet different version of packages (4.4.0-101).
    – Ryujiro Shibuya
    Dec 6, 2017 at 8:15
  • Those are version specific packages. So, yeah, you broke it. If you want to install them per version, you have to change the link in /usr/src/linux to point to the right kernel version. Hence, people using the linux-headers or linux-src metapackages. They, at least on ubuntu although they never did on backtrack, update that link for you to the latest installed kernel.
    – RobotHumans
    Dec 6, 2017 at 11:15

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