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

Dwaipayan Ray dwaipayanray1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 04:48:33 UTC 2021


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:14 AM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
> []
> > 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...
>

Sure I was hoping to do that over time after getting
this series in...

Nevertheless I will send the v7 in right away with the color
code changes.

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.


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