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

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Date:   Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:44:45 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode

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