Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] tools: Connect to the kernel build system

[Alex Riesen]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 20:33, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 05:57:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg escreveu:
>> >
>> > -QUIET_SUBDIR0 Â= +$(MAKE) -C # space to separate -C and subdir
>> > -QUIET_SUBDIR1 Â=
>>
>> Who-ever came up with the names "QUIET_SUBDIR" must have had a bad day...
>
> Came from the git sources, where it still lives on:
>
> [acme@sandy git]$ git show b7774343
> commit b777434383bd2f365be6896d8c89be6c1b62a135
> Author: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Â Wed Mar 7 00:44:49 2007 +0100
>
> Â ÂSupport of "make -s": do not output anything of the build itself
>
> Â ÂSigned-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx>
>

Looked like a good idea at the time.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quiet

  quiÂet
  verb \ËkwÄ-Ét\

  Definition of QUIET
  transitive verb
  1: to cause to be quiet : calm
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