From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753606AbYKFVOF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:14:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751288AbYKFVNw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:13:52 -0500 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:32768 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751272AbYKFVNv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:13:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:50:48 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Mike Frysinger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo Message-ID: <20081106205048.GA2972@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1225960295-30366-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1225960295-30366-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:31:34AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show > some nice status lines. This means we still get output when running in > silent mode. So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we > are in a suitable verbose build mode. Nice idea. I will add it as soon as I start working on kbuild-next Same for your other two patches. A lot of the kbuild stuff today is using lowercase to avoid all the typical SCREAMING in Makefiles so I may end up using $(kecho). Sam