[PATCH RFC 1/2] images: allow suppressing missing firmware stderr output

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hello Sascha,

On 1/12/26 3:17 PM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> There is a Kconfig option to turn missing firmware to an error, but
> there is no way to suppress the warning that is printed in any case.
> 
> Suppressing the warning is useful however when reproducing an issue with
> a multi_defconfig, so allow changing it to output to stdout by means of
> an environment variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>

Any thoughts on this?

Cheers,
Ahmad

> ---
>  images/Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/images/Makefile b/images/Makefile
> index ebbf57b46355..96f66b0a8e70 100644
> --- a/images/Makefile
> +++ b/images/Makefile
> @@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ images: $(image-y-path) $(flash-link) $(flash-list) $(symlink-y-path) FORCE
>  	@echo "images built:"
>  	@for i in $(image-y); do \
>  	  if [ -s $(obj)/$$i ]; then echo $$i; \
> -	  else >&2 echo "** $$i skipped due to missing firmware **"; \
> +	  else $(if $(NO_MISSING_FIRMWARE_WARNING),,>&2) \
> +	  	echo "** $$i skipped due to missing firmware **"; \
>  	  $(if $(CONFIG_MISSING_FIRMWARE_ERROR), >&2 sed 's/^/\t/' <$(obj)/$${i}.missing-firmware; missing=1;) \
>  	  fi; done; if [ -n "$$missing" ]; then \
>  	    echo >&2 "Firmware missing in CONFIG_MISSING_FIRMWARE_ERROR=y build"; exit 1; fi