linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:50:48 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo

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
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