Add a new verbose mode to checkpatch. The verbose test descriptions are read from the checkpatch documentation file at `Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst`.
The verbose mode is optional and can be enabled by the flag -v or --verbose. The documentation file is only parsed by checkpatch.pl if the verbose mode is enabled. The verbose mode can not be used together with the --terse option. Changes in v4: - Change the type description format - Group the message types by usage - Make handling of --terse with --verbose simpler Changes in v3: - Simplify documentation file parsing in checkpatch - Document a total of 33 message types for checkpatch Changes in v2: - Use .rst Field Lists to specify the type descriptions. - Add a few more type descriptions to documentation. Dwaipayan Ray (2): checkpatch: add verbose mode docs: add documentation for checkpatch Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 525 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst | 1 + scripts/checkpatch.pl | 61 ++- 3 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst -- 2.30.0
