On Sunday 12 August 2012 10:02:48 Benoît Thébaudeau wrote: > Dear Wolfgang Denk, > > > I have searched such a usage in the tree, but did not find any, so > > > this should > > > not break anything. > > > > You cannot expect to see the real, production environments in the > > mainline source tree. > > Right, but the same applied to serial# and ethaddr when they were added, > except if U-Boot deployment was not large enough at that time to worry > you.
which makes all the difference in the world. those two variables were set up this way before 2002 (at least, that's according to the git history, and that's when the source code was first imported, so i can't easily check just how far back it goes). as the project grows up, policies evolve. -mike
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