From 3161c8c4172b6128991dcb4d26c5c7e032b0ad5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:31:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 122971 b: refs/heads/master c:
 5410ecc0def8955ab99810c5626cc7e156991896 h: refs/heads/master i:   122969:
 82e427f415de5cafa279d5ee5c5de2ba42f74786   122967:
 47609679d91d6a5dfaa4a32e1d3c664e9bbc316a v: v3

---
 [refs]                                   |  2 +-
 trunk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
 trunk/scripts/Kbuild.include             |  7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9a3a0c6a3c96..1ba6bd88c988 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d03fab43c5ba4f5fa46db73c937e9b993a531d27
+refs/heads/master: 5410ecc0def8955ab99810c5626cc7e156991896
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/trunk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 7a7753321a26..51104f9194a5 100644
--- a/trunk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/trunk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -383,6 +383,20 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	to prerequisites are referenced with $(src) (because they are not
 	generated files).
 
+    $(kecho)
+	echoing information to user in a rule is often a good practice
+	but when execution "make -s" one does not expect to see any output
+	except for warnings/errors.
+	To support this kbuild define $(kecho) which will echo out the
+	text following $(kecho) to stdout except if "make -s" is used.
+
+	Example:
+		#arch/blackfin/boot/Makefile
+		$(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz
+			$(call if_changed,uimage)
+			@$(kecho) 'Kernel: $@ is ready'
+
+
 --- 3.11 $(CC) support functions
 
 	The kernel may be built with several different versions of
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/Kbuild.include b/trunk/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 936940b541f9..8cf87e815e51 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/trunk/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ basetarget = $(basename $(notdir $@))
 # Escape single quote for use in echo statements
 escsq = $(subst $(squote),'\$(squote)',$1)
 
+###
+# Easy method for doing a status message
+       kecho := :
+ quiet_kecho := echo
+silent_kecho := :
+kecho := $($(quiet)kecho)
+
 ###
 # filechk is used to check if the content of a generated file is updated.
 # Sample usage: