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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>

Sam Ravnborg 4f0210b9 cb58455c

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Makefile
··· 338 # Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists) 339 KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null) 340 341 - export KERNELRELEASE \ 342 ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \ 343 CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \ 344 HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
··· 338 # Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists) 339 KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null) 340 341 + export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE \ 342 ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \ 343 CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \ 344 HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS