Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 22:24 +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.
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> The verbose descriptions are not shown when the --terse option
> is enabled.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -2209,7 +2256,15 @@ sub report {
>               splice(@lines, 1, 1);
>               $output = join("\n", @lines);
>       }
> -     $output = (split('\n', $output))[0] . "\n" if ($terse);
> +
> +     if ($terse) {
> +             $output = (split('\n', $output))[0] . "\n";
> +     }
> +
> +     if ($verbose &&
> +         exists $verbose_messages{$type}) {
> +             $output .= $verbose_messages{$type} . "\n\n";
> +     }

verbose output can be silly long if repeated multiple times.
Perhaps the verbose content should only be printed once when
first emitted with a flag set for that type.

Something like:

        if ($verbose && exists($verbose_messages{$type}) &&
            !$verbose_emitted{$type}) {
                $output .= ...
                $verbose_emitted{$type} = 1;
        }