[U-Boot] [PATCH] make make quiet

[Remy Bohmer]

Hello All,

My 2 cents: (I am NOT trying to start a flame war, although I
understand how sensitive this subject is)

> I think your appraoch (and that  of  kbuild,  too)  is  fundamentally
> broken.

Maybe the configure structure, like u-boot has, that is so complex, so
hard to customise, so error prone, and were relations between options
is so unclear from the users perspective, is fundamentally broken
;-)))

I thought of it before to integrate Kconfig/kbuild and friends in
U-boot, but I got the impression back then that it would have a very
small chance of being ever accepted, so I did not invest much time in
it...

So, I really like the kbuild/kconfig method to handle such a large
amount of ifdefs options included the method of documenting the
options. Hmm, that sounds like what u-boot-v2 is doing, and I wonder
sometimes if it would exist at all if u-boot was using a different
make structure? I think it is a pity that it separated in the first
place, but that is a different discussion...

> Fixing  this  on the Makefile level is at least one level to
> far up. If you really want a verbosity level of make that is  between
> no  options  (normal  case) and no output (except warnings/errors, as
> with -s), then this should be implemnted within make itself, as a new
> make option.Then you have the changes in one place only, and each and
> every software package can benefit from  it.  Modifying  hundrets  of
> Makefiles here and there and then again for each new software package
> makes absolutely no sense to me.

Maybe the linux makefile structure is a much better approach :-)))
(in that case even weak-linking could work properly)

BTW: Kenneth is silent already for 5 days on this discussion, is he
being scared off?


Kind Regards,

Remy