[U-Boot] Initial environment variables

[Ron Madrid <ron_madrid@sbcglobal.net>]

> Ron Madrid wrote:
> > When I submitted patches for my new board SIMPC8313 I
> recall being told that
> > I had inappropriately initialized some of my
> environment variables.  Most
> > specifically I am interested in having default
> serverip, ipaddr, and ethaddr
> > environment variables.  Is this most
> appropriately done with a specific
> > #define (such as #define CONFIG_SERVERIP) or within
> #define
> > CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS?
> >
> >   
> You can set CONFIGs for all of these things in your own
> private build 
> and they'll work, but they're inappropriate for main-line
> U-boot.  I 
> hope the reasoning is obvious.

I'm do not understand why and I see in several include/configs/*.h files that these environment variable are being set as default.  I'm guessing that there's something that I'm missing.

Ron