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

[Dave Young]

On 09/02/15 at 10:00am, Simon Horman wrote:
> 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?

Simon, sent, thanks a lot.
Dave