linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add grammatical judgement for total output

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Message-ID: <68b4f05607e9e44559e174d9b50e435fb58ef5aa.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:03:41 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Hu Haowen <src.res@...il.cn>, apw@...onical.com
Cc:     dwaipayanray1@...il.com, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add grammatical judgement for total output

On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 23:14 +0800, Hu Haowen wrote:
> There lacked a English grammatical identification within the final
> output of checkpatch.pl such as the following:
> 
>     total: 1 errors, 11 warnings, 4094 lines checked
>                   ^
> 
> Which violated the rule about the usage of the singular form and the
> plural form. Hence fix the issue up and make it output the proper
> sentence.

NAK

I appreciate the desire for precision but I don't want to require
any automated downstream user of checkpatch to be changed.

I think users understand the output even though it may not be
grammatically correct in some cases.

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -7439,9 +7439,14 @@ sub process {
>  	print report_dump();
>  	if ($summary && !($clean == 1 && $quiet == 1)) {
>  		print "$filename " if ($summary_file);
> -		print "total: $cnt_error errors, $cnt_warn warnings, " .
> -			(($check)? "$cnt_chk checks, " : "") .
> -			"$cnt_lines lines checked\n";
> +		my $errors_str = ($cnt_error == 1) ? "error" : "errors";
> +		my $warnings_str = ($cnt_warn == 1) ? "warning" : "warnings";
> +		my $checks_str = ($cnt_chk == 1) ? "check" : "checks";
> +		my $lines_str = ($cnt_lines == 1) ? "line" : "lines";
> +		print "total: $cnt_error $errors_str, " .
> +			"$cnt_warn $warnings_str, " .
> +			(($check)? "$cnt_chk $checks_str, " : "") .
> +			"$cnt_lines $lines_str checked\n";
>  	}
>  
> 
>  	if ($quiet == 0) {