base-files: introduce a function to get kernel version number

A new function "get_linux_version()" to normalize and print the
kernel version as an integer. In some migration scripts, it is
useful for checking the Linux kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <[email protected]>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19172
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit a0fe3cfb62fbf0b5f599c90e488727f493223429)
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/20739
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <[email protected]>

package/base-files/files/lib/functions/system.sh

@@ -315,3 +315,10 @@ macaddr_canonicalize() {
 dt_is_enabled() {
 	grep -q okay "/proc/device-tree/$1/status"
 }
+
+get_linux_version() {
+	local ver=$(uname -r)
+	local minor=${ver%\.*}
+
+	printf "%d%02d%03d" ${ver%%\.*} ${minor#*\.} ${ver##*\.} 2>/dev/null
+}