Yamada-san, I have a question on the current top level Makefile. There are following lines, I have trouble to understand "firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS)" in 2nd line, why there is a 'x' there? ifneq ($(filter 4.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),) # make-4 ifneq ($(filter %s ,$(firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS))),) quiet=silent_ tools_silent=s endif else # make-3.8x ifneq ($(filter s% -s%,$(MAKEFLAGS)),) quiet=silent_ tools_silent=-s endif endif I already read & understand your patch[*] and know these lines will be modified, but I have spent quite a few days on understanding it, so I still want to know the purpose of 'x'. [*]https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/19/371 -- Sincerely, Cao jin On 06/06/2017 11:01 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > 2017-06-06 18:07 GMT+09:00 Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> The help info of `make C=1` is little confusing, make it clear. >> >> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks! > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html