Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Feb 21 2021 - 21:45:32 EST


On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 00:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:36 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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...