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I have downloaded from a hardware vendor just a tarball of their Linux source tree (no Git repository metadata), is there a way to find out the version number of the kernel?
Is the version number usually stored in a file somewhere in the source tree?
I’d like to be able to do this without compiling and running the kernel.
You can find the version by running
In the source tree