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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 00:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:36 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.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...