kbuild: re-export VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL



Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com> pointed out that it is usefull to have
access to VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL in external modules, and gooling
a litte confirmed this.
So re-export them.
Usage within the kernel is still discouraged but possible.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

parent cb58455c

Makefile

+1 −1

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		@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
		# Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists)
		KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null)

		export KERNELRELEASE \
		export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE \
		ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \
		CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \
		HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS