Found the answer by googling further. It's been renamed to vermagic.
strings reiserfs.ko|grep vermagic
vermagic=2.6.9-11.EL 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
On 8/16/05, Fong Vang <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the 2.4 kernel, modules contain the "kernel_version" identification
> in the module itself. This is an example from the 2.4.18 reiserfs
> kernel module:
>
> kernel_version=2.4.18-27.7.xbigmem
> using_checksums=1
> description=ReiserFS journaled filesystem
> author=Hans Reiser <[email protected]>
> license=GPL
> kernel_version=2.4.18-27.7.xbigmem
> using_checksums=1
>
>
> This ID doesn't seem to exist anymore in the 2.6 kernel. How does a
> 2.6 kernel know if a module is compatible?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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