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
