Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: Do not print status messages in make -s mode

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 2015-04-09 14:47, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 13:42 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Add an -s option to the conf, mconf, qconf and gconf frontends and pass
>> it when make -s is used.
> 
> Basically this suppresses everything except warning and errors,
> correct? 

Yes, that's what make -s is expected to do.


> I don't actually use nconf. Is it already silent?

Yes.


> (I had to look up $(kecho). I found:
>     ###
>     # Easy method for doing a status message
>            kecho := :
>      quiet_kecho := echo
>     silent_kecho := :
>     kecho := $($(quiet)kecho)
> 
> I'm not fluent in Makefilese. What does it provide beyond @echo?)

See Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.


> The patch adds this :
>     conf_set_message_callback(NULL);
> 
> for conf, gconf, and qconf. That won't work for mconf?

Have you tried looking at the mconf code? It sets a message callback to
display ncurses dialogs.

Michal