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On 2013-10-30 08:10, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> This change lets the user override the choice of kernel in local.conf
>> Without it, there is no way to build any kernel, e.g. linux-imx, other
>> than the linux-boundary version.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
>
> I really dislike this.
>
> I understand your need, and it is a valid one, but it'd be better you
> to make a new machine (which includes this one) and override it there.

Even if I did that (and I have), if I include this config file, I can
never override this setting in a soft (user settable) way.

> If we start allow all kind of override in machine configuration it
> loses its meaning and complicates the support.
>
> Eric? comments?
>

Eric has already approved this change.

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