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>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index df60aa1b..1d1afa5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
# 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