On Wed, 2023-03-08 at 15:31 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > Does anyone know why this commit is using a make version > > comparison? That seems totally unnecessary to me; am I forgetting > > something? As far as I remember, > > > > silence := $(findstring s,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))) > > > > has always been the proper way to check for the short option "s", > > and has always worked in every version of GNU Make. > > > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4bf73588165ba7d32131a04377 > > 5557a54b6e1db5 > > No idea, sorry, submit a patch to the kbuild maintainer and they will > probably accept it.
Heh :) I was really asking the collective wisdom of the bug-make-erati moreso than you or Eric, although all thoughts are of course welcome.
