[openwrt/openwrt] base-files: introduce a function to get kernel version number

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ansuel pushed a commit to openwrt/openwrt.git, branch openwrt-24.10:
https://git.openwrt.org/42ca1612a2e207d47400d4bbbd4188a1cbc96b22

commit 42ca1612a2e207d47400d4bbbd4188a1cbc96b22
Author: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66 at outlook.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Nov 11 23:02:22 2025 +0200

    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 <yangshiji66 at outlook.com>
    Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19172
    Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
    (cherry picked from commit a0fe3cfb62fbf0b5f599c90e488727f493223429)
    Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/20739
    Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
---
 package/base-files/files/lib/functions/system.sh | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/base-files/files/lib/functions/system.sh b/package/base-files/files/lib/functions/system.sh
index f43281b5dc..eaed0fba11 100644
--- a/package/base-files/files/lib/functions/system.sh
+++ b/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
+}