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Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 2015 02:52:03 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make the output better readable

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 11:13 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Mon 2015-06-01 08:50:24, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 16:25 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > I always have troubles to parse checkpatch.pl output when I check
> > > the whole patchset. It is hard to say which messages belongs to
> > > what patch.
> > > 
> > > This patch does few small changes to make the output look better
> > > for me:
> > > 
> > >     + delimit each patch from each other with dashes and empty line
> > >     + remove empty line after the summary
> > 
> > I've no objection about this, but don't much care either.
> > 
> > >     + print message about false positives only once
> > 
> > This bit seems sensible, thanks.
> > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > []
> > > @@ -720,8 +720,14 @@ my @fixed_deleted = ();
> > >  my $fixlinenr = -1;
> > >  
> > >  my $vname;
> > > +my $filenum = 0;
> > >  for my $filename (@ARGV) {
> > >  	my $FILE;
> > > +
> > > +	if ($filenum++ && $quiet == 0) {
> > > +		print "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
> > 
> > Perhaps more perlish would be print '-' x 81 . '\n\n';
> > Dunno why you chose 81 though, it seems an unusual number.
> 
> Are you sure, please? I have just counted it again and I see 80
> dashes. Is it possible that you counted the initial quotation
> mark '"'?

My mistake, I neglected to account for the cr in echo|wc

> Well, I do not mind about the number of dashes. Feel free to update
> it in case you merge it.

I don't actually merge stuff, I can forward it to
Andrew Morton though, but perhaps it'd be better to
check $#ARGV > 1 and emit something like
	"$filename is being processed\n"
so that there is a delimiter before and after each file

Another option for you is to add --emacs on the command line.
That prefixes patch filename & location before each message.

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