linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: shut up uboot mkimage output when building quietly

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2wJpzro1n-37+bbfOANWbQyyzRHRhPRD5U2UoYWTDY2A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 09:28:37 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: shut up uboot mkimage output when building quietly

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:09 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:58 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> >
> > When building with 'make -s', most architectures produce no output
> > at all unless there are warnings. However, on at leat mips and nios2
> > there is output from /usr/bin/mkimage when that is installed:
> >
> >   Image Name:   Linux-5.12.0-next-20210427-00716
> >   Created:      Wed Apr 28 22:03:30 2021
> >   Image Type:   NIOS II Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> >   Data Size:    2245876 Bytes = 2193.24 KiB = 2.14 MiB
> >   Load Address: d0000000
> >   Entry Point:  d0000000
> >
> > Make these behave like the others and check for the '${quiet}'
> > variable to see if we should redirect the output to /dev/null.
> > Any errors and warnings from mkimage will still be seen as those
> > get sent to stderr.
>
> Thanks for the report, but I rather want to suppress stdout
> in the kbuild core macro.
>
> I wrote this patch.
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1429409/

Looks good, thank you for taking care of it.

       Arnd