This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/bpf_doc: Use silent mode when exec make cmd to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scripts-bpf_doc-use-silent-mode-when-exec-make-cmd.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1be8b32a349c56d2ddd7f042eca6a79d5e1c0ccf Author: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 15 10:34:43 2024 +0800 scripts/bpf_doc: Use silent mode when exec make cmd [ Upstream commit 5384cc0d1a88c27448a6a4e65b8abe6486de8012 ] When getting kernel version via make, the result may be polluted by other output, like directory change info. e.g. $ export MAKEFLAGS="-w" $ make kernelversion make: Entering directory '/home/net' 6.8.0 make: Leaving directory '/home/net' This will distort the reStructuredText output and make latter rst2man failed like: [...] bpf-helpers.rst:20: (WARNING/2) Field list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. [...] Using silent mode would help. e.g. $ make -s --no-print-directory kernelversion 6.8.0 Fixes: fd0a38f9c37d ("scripts/bpf: Set version attribute for bpf-helpers(7) man page") Signed-off-by: Michael Hofmann <mhofmann@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240315023443.2364442-1-liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/bpf_doc.py b/scripts/bpf_doc.py index 4de98b7bbea95..c2da6ed32104f 100755 --- a/scripts/bpf_doc.py +++ b/scripts/bpf_doc.py @@ -396,8 +396,8 @@ class PrinterRST(Printer): version = version.stdout.decode().rstrip() except: try: - version = subprocess.run(['make', 'kernelversion'], cwd=linuxRoot, - capture_output=True, check=True) + version = subprocess.run(['make', '-s', '--no-print-directory', 'kernelversion'], + cwd=linuxRoot, capture_output=True, check=True) version = version.stdout.decode().rstrip() except: return 'Linux'