diff --git a/reform2-imx8mq/default.imx8mq-mnt-reform2.dtb.do b/reform2-imx8mq/default.imx8mq-mnt-reform2.dtb.do
index 137348b04152f10c06fc58f08705e1b45df0b305..3fde6c26dbfcdf29ed1e607aedb7c42e80366002 100644
--- a/reform2-imx8mq/default.imx8mq-mnt-reform2.dtb.do
+++ b/reform2-imx8mq/default.imx8mq-mnt-reform2.dtb.do
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ redo "${LINUX_D}"/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi
   git apply "${PATCHFILE}"
  done
 
+ # By default, make writes diagnostic messages to standard out, not
+ # standard error. Therefore we redirect stdout to stderr for make,
+ # as redo would write anything on stdout to the resulting target …
+
  >&2 make -j "$(nproc)" freescale/imx8mq-mnt-reform2.dtb
 )