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Currently, when you switch between branches or something like that and rebuild, net/ethtool/ioctl.c has to be built again because it depends on UTS_RELEASE. By instead referencing a string variable stored in another object file, this can be avoided. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240220194244.2056384-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>