[PATCH 2/2] ARM: delete "*Image is ready" log

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 31 09:53:01 PDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:43:02AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not
> generate invalid images") fixed bad image generation in case of
> parallel building, but as a side effect, Kbuild now descends into
> arch/arm/boot/ again and again, duplicating the same log messages.
> This is clumsy.
> 
> In the example below (incremental build),
>   "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready" is displayed three times.
>   "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready" is displayed twice.

I disagree.  Image and zImage are the final targets that users are
interested in, we should tell people that they've been successfully
created.

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