kbuild: sink stdout from cmd for silent build
When building with 'make -s', no output to stdout should be printed. As Arnd Bergmann reported [1], mkimage shows the detailed information of the generated images. I think this should be suppressed by the 'cmd' macro instead of by individual scripts. Insert 'exec >/dev/null;' in order to redirect stdout to /dev/null for silent builds. [Note about this implementation] 'exec >/dev/null;' may look somewhat tricky, but this has a reason. Appending '>/dev/null' at the end of command line is a common way for redirection, so I first tried this: cmd = @set -e; $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1)) >/dev/null ... but it would not work if $(cmd_$(1)) itself contains a redirection. For example, cmd_wrap in scripts/Makefile.asm-generic redirects the output from the 'echo' command into the target file. It would be expanded into: echo "#include <asm-generic/$*.h>" > $@ >/dev/null Then, the target file gets empty because the string will go to /dev/null instead of $@. Next...
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