[PATCH RFC 1/4] init: Add uts_release

[John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>]

Add a char [] for UTS_RELEASE so that we don't need to rebuild code which
references UTS_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
---
 include/linux/utsname.h | 1 +
 init/version.c          | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
index bf7613ba412b..15b0b1c9a9ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/utsname.h
+++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
@@ -88,5 +88,6 @@ static inline struct new_utsname *init_utsname(void)
 }
 
 extern struct rw_semaphore uts_sem;
+extern const char uts_release[];
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_UTSNAME_H */
diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
index 94c96f6fbfe6..87fecdd4fbfb 100644
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/uts.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/proc_ns.h>
+#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
 
 static int __init early_hostname(char *arg)
 {
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@ BUILD_LTO_INFO;
 
 struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns __weak;
 const char linux_banner[] __weak;
+const char uts_release[] = UTS_RELEASE;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uts_release);
 
 #include "version-timestamp.c"
 
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