[Mesa-dev] That silly DRIVER_DATE field, v2

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Romanick
This is basically the same as the previous patches. Per review comments by Brian, I've moved the git-fu shell code to bin/extract_git_sha1. Unless there are objections, I'd like to push this (with the various Reviewed-by and Acked-by lines added) sooner rather than later. We can improve the git-

[Mesa-dev] That silly DRIVER_DATE field

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Romanick
Once up on a time, we used to get bug reports from people running random versions of DRI drivers. We would often find that the user had an old driver, and their problem had already been fixed in a newer version. This was also a time when Mesa releases occurred once every 12 to 18 months. To fix