diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst
index 335de7fcddee..11d9a5730fb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ is larger than the driver minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will
 return an error. Otherwise the driver's set_version() method will be
 called with the requested version.
 
-Name, Description and Date
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Name and Description
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 char \*name; char \*desc; char \*date;
 The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time,
@@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ The driver description is a purely informative string passed to
 userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by
 the kernel.
 
-The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of
-the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to
-update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the
-kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the
-DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
-
 Module Initialization
 ---------------------
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
index b8186cf16230..93543071a500 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
@@ -947,9 +947,9 @@ int drm_dev_register(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
 	}
 	drm_panic_register(dev);
 
-	DRM_INFO("Initialized %s %d.%d.%d %s for %s on minor %d\n",
+	DRM_INFO("Initialized %s %d.%d.%d for %s on minor %d\n",
 		 driver->name, driver->major, driver->minor,
-		 driver->patchlevel, driver->date,
+		 driver->patchlevel,
 		 dev->dev ? dev_name(dev->dev) : "virtual device",
 		 dev->primary ? dev->primary->index : dev->accel->index);
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
index e368fc084c77..89feb7306e47 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
@@ -529,9 +529,10 @@ int drm_version(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 	version->version_patchlevel = dev->driver->patchlevel;
 	err = drm_copy_field(version->name, &version->name_len,
 			dev->driver->name);
+
+	/* Driver date is deprecated. Return the empty string. */
 	if (!err)
-		err = drm_copy_field(version->date, &version->date_len,
-				dev->driver->date);
+		err = drm_copy_field(version->date, &version->date_len, "");
 	if (!err)
 		err = drm_copy_field(version->desc, &version->desc_len,
 				dev->driver->desc);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_drv.h b/include/drm/drm_drv.h
index 8878260d7529..cd37936c3926 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_drv.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_drv.h
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ struct drm_driver {
 	char *name;
 	/** @desc: driver description */
 	char *desc;
-	/** @date: driver date */
+	/** @date: driver date, unused, to be removed */
 	char *date;
 
 	/**