--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1)
+
+# First argument is the path to the kernel headers.
+KPATH="$1"
+
+if [ ! -f "${KPATH}/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h" ]; then
+ echo 0
+ exit 0
+fi
+
+# Assuming KPATH is the target kernel headers directory
+RHEL_RELEASE=$(sed -rn 's/^#define RHEL_RELEASE "(.*)"/\1/p' "${KPATH}/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h")
+
+RHEL_RELEASE_MAJOR=$(echo "${RHEL_RELEASE}" | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1/')
+RHEL_RELEASE_MINOR=$(echo "${RHEL_RELEASE}" | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\2/')
+RHEL_RELEASE_PATCH=$(echo "${RHEL_RELEASE}" | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\3/')
+
+# Combine all update numbers into one
+RHEL_API_VERSION=$((RHEL_RELEASE_MAJOR * 10000 + RHEL_RELEASE_MINOR * 100 + RHEL_RELEASE_PATCH))
+
+echo ${RHEL_API_VERSION}