diff --git a/etc/config.c b/etc/config.c
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--- a/etc/config.c
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-/*
- * This is used by the top-level makefile to automagically
- * get the kernel version from <linux/version.h>.
- * A simple grep doesn't work for Mandrake and Red Hat distributions
- * that contain multiple UTS_RELEASE definitions in version.h.
- */
-#include <linux/version.h>
-char *uts_release=UTS_RELEASE;