[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Feb 22 02:44:45 UTC 2021


On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 00:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:36 PM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2021-02-21 at 17:28 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > > Add a new verbose mode to checkpatch.pl to emit additional verbose
> > > test descriptions. The verbose mode is optional and can be enabled
> > > by the flag -v or --verbose.
> > 
> > OK, maybe add color coding to the list_types output.
> Okay, nice idea!
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> Sure, I will do something like this.
> Are there any other improvements you can see right now
> or will the coloring thing suffice?

A lot more descriptive output for the .rst file and
of course a lot more of the types documented...



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