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

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:58 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.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/




> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  scripts/mkuboot.sh | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mkuboot.sh b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
> index 4b1fe09e9042..031b5d6b839f 100755
> --- a/scripts/mkuboot.sh
> +++ b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
> @@ -17,4 +17,8 @@ if [ -z "${MKIMAGE}" ]; then
>  fi
>
>  # Call "mkimage" to create U-Boot image
> -${MKIMAGE} "$@"
> +if [ "${quiet}" != "silent_" ]; then
> +${MKIMAGE} "$@" ${REDIRECT}
> +else
> +${MKIMAGE} "$@" ${REDIRECT} > /dev/null
> +fi
> --
> 2.29.2
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada