Dear Eric Nelson,
In message 4F53D8E6.4000408@boundarydevices.com you wrote:
Since U-Boot doesn't really have a configuration step, I find that folks tend to tweak the board configuration file quite a bit based on their needs.
Yes, peaople do that a lot, nd it has always been a very good idea to at least detect such modifications of the code. The worst thing to happen is when you receive a bug report for version FOO, and you have no chance of detecting that somebody actually messed with the configuration and/or the code.
Though it's a bit of a hack, we even formalized it on our i.MX5x products to allow customers to keep their git repositories clean: ....
[Link deleted to not further distribute this horrible stuff.]
Frankly, this "keep their git repositories clean" is a really, really bad idea. We pay special care to add the git commit ID to the U-Boot version string so you can easily detect if somebody messed with the code, and you come up and invent methods of circumventing that.
This is totally counterproductive.
If you use this, that's your business. But please do me the favour and do not recommend this to others.
Thanks.
Wolfgang Denk