variables: explicitly state that UBOOT_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS is optional

(From yocto-docs rev: 0ba5591c4e8dd194f87837556cedb2b9979bc6df)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 4508bb1451..8f7f86e6b3 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -8444,6 +8444,8 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
    :term:`UBOOT_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS`
       Options for the device tree compiler passed to mkimage '-D'
       feature while creating FIT image in :ref:`kernel-fitimage <ref-classes-kernel-fitimage>` class.
+      If ``UBOOT_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS`` is not set then kernel-fitimage will not
+      pass the ``-D`` option to mkimage.
 
    :term:`UBOOT_RD_ENTRYPOINT`
       Specifies the entrypoint for the RAM disk image.