Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make the output better readable

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>]

On Mon 2015-06-01 08:50:24, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 16:25 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > I always have troubles to parse checkpatch.pl output when I check
> > the whole patchset. It is hard to say which messages belongs to
> > what patch.
> > 
> > This patch does few small changes to make the output look better
> > for me:
> > 
> >     + delimit each patch from each other with dashes and empty line
> >     + remove empty line after the summary
> 
> I've no objection about this, but don't much care either.
> 
> >     + print message about false positives only once
> 
> This bit seems sensible, thanks.
> 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -720,8 +720,14 @@ my @fixed_deleted = ();
> >  my $fixlinenr = -1;
> >  
> >  my $vname;
> > +my $filenum = 0;
> >  for my $filename (@ARGV) {
> >  	my $FILE;
> > +
> > +	if ($filenum++ && $quiet == 0) {
> > +		print "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
> 
> Perhaps more perlish would be print '-' x 81 . '\n\n';
> Dunno why you chose 81 though, it seems an unusual number.

Are you sure, please? I have just counted it again and I see 80
dashes. Is it possible that you counted the initial quotation
mark '"'?

Well, I do not mind about the number of dashes. Feel free to update
it in case you merge it.

Thanks a lot for review.

Best Regards,
Petr