On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:45:43PM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > >>> [...], but I wonder if there is any point in keeping the date [in > >>> the bootloaders] > >> Personally, I find it useful to make sure I've got the bootloader I > >> think I do installed, usually after a change-and-rebuild. "Wait a > >> minute, this one was built two months ago, not ten minutes ago; what > >> went wrong?". > > That's what the version number is supposed to tell you. > > Any version number that could tell me what I use the datestamp for > would be functionally equivalent to a datestamp, except less easy to > verify.
The version number is not a random property of the build time. It is a property of the source tree, which tends to be a lot more useful. Just because you build any branch, including current, 3 month ago, doesn't say much about the sources. Joerg
