Re: Make checkpatch.pl's quiet option not print the summary on noerrors

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 16:59:01 EST



* Andy Whitcroft <andyw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:54:42AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Subject: Make checkpatch.pl's quiet option not print the summary on no
> > errors
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: apw@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Right now, in quiet mode, checkpatch.pl still prints a summary line
> > even if the patch is 100% clean. IMO, "quiet mode" should mean "no
> > output if clean", the patch below makes that so. (This also makes
> > the quilt integration on my system work nicer :)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While looking to integrate this I discovered that the current default
> was a desired feature requested by Ingo. So I guess we need to come
> up with a combination of options which give us both.

feel free to drop the summary line on -q, i think i only wanted the
summary to be avilable _somewhere_, so that there's a "quality metric at
glance" line that one can see. To me that still plays OK with quilt
because it's a constant reminder that the patch is clean.

Ingo
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