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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] MX5:MX53: support for freescale MX53LOCO board
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:53:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110222065334.668CC14F034@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2CF7613B9822A943BEF13EF7ACEC5BD114A316@039-SN1MPN1-003.039d.mgd.msft.net>

Dear Liu Hui-R64343,

In message <2CF7613B9822A943BEF13EF7ACEC5BD114A316@039-SN1MPN1-003.039d.mgd.msft.net> you wrote:
> 
> >As I discovered myself, usage of config.mk is discouraged and it should be
> >removed and it is not accepted anymore for new boards. Instead of that, it is
> >possible to add CONFIG_ options in boards.cfg.
> 
> OK, do you know why config.mk is discouraged?

There are seeral reasons, the most prominent being

1) because it's simply not needed in 95% of all cases

2) because it's bad to distribute vital configuration information into
   several independent files

and

3) because we're preparing the grounds for a Kconfig based setup so we
   want to have all config options controlled by a single mechanism
   (board config file).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-21 10:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] MX5:MX53: support for freescale MX53LOCO board Jason Liu
2011-02-21 12:46 ` Stefano Babic
2011-02-22  1:44   ` Liu Hui-R64343
2011-02-22  6:53     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2011-02-22  7:59       ` Jason Liu
2011-02-22 11:48     ` Stefano Babic
2011-02-21 23:38 ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-22  1:47   ` Liu Hui-R64343
2011-02-22  3:28     ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-22  6:54     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-22  8:01       ` Jason Liu
2011-04-13 20:37 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-14  3:26   ` Jason Liu
2011-04-14  5:31     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-14  7:48       ` Jason Liu
2011-04-14  8:12         ` Jason Liu
2011-04-15 16:24           ` Stefano Babic
2011-04-15 17:32             ` Jason Liu

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