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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
parentkbuild: KERNELRELEASE is only re-defined when buiding the kernel (diff)
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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>
-rw-r--r--Makefile2
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