kbuild: introduce $(kecho) convenience echo

There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show
some nice status lines.  This means we still get output when running in
silent mode.  So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we
are in a suitable verbose build mode.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
[sam: added Documentation]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 936940b541f9..8cf87e815e51 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ basetarget = $(basename $(notdir $@))
 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:
 # define filechk_sample