[PATCH RFC] Drop release date from kexec-tools version output

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:19:30PM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> On 27/08/2015:02:29:57 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > Pratyush, rethink about it, it is still confused. Considering below case:
> > 
> > git clone kexec-tools;
> > bootstrap and build, the version and date is the current git version and current date
> > after some time, git pull, upstream bumps to new version
> > run make again, build/sbin/kexec --version will still show the old date along with new version
> 
> OK, got it..
> 
> May be we can take this patch and then it will be good to take Geoff's following patch.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=0b18e1d9311e21d2a2f1392607eade138b9aefe7
> 
> With this patch we get something like this:
> $ ./build/sbin/kexec -v
> kexec version: 15.05.14.11.29-g4f6d8ec17529
> kexec-tools 2.0.10.git released 27 August 2015
> 
> So, we have Date, Time and git shaid as well.

My feeling is that we should take this patch and get rid of
the sometimes bogus date. Dave, would you care to repost it as a non-RFC?