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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-01-09 22:48:34 +0100
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-01-09 22:48:34 +0100
commit4f0210b9c4889eede9f8f379f93570c01998ccb9 (patch)
tree0883096acb3bc46e65a6873b777f01214d6a7852 /Makefile
parentcb58455c48dc43536e5548bdba4e916b2f0cf13d (diff)
downloadlinux-4f0210b9c4889eede9f8f379f93570c01998ccb9.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index df60aa1bfb53..1d1afa573299 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -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