Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits)
  allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
  kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko
  kbuild: simplify use of genksyms
  kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations
  kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files
  kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh
  kbuild: fix make tags/cscope
  kbuild: fix make incompatibility
  kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE
  setlocalversion: add git-svn support
  setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision
  scripts: improve the decodecode script
  scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm
  genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes
  genksyms: track symbol checksum changes
  tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script
  kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh
  kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names
  remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
  kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 7a7753321a26..51104f9194a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/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