Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: add verbose mode

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

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.
Something like:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bbff13e0ca7e..ccd4a1bd73cb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -163,14 +163,39 @@ sub list_types {
 	my $text = <$script>;
 	close($script);
 
-	my @types = ();
+	my %types = ();
 	# Also catch when type or level is passed through a variable
-	for ($text =~ /(?:(?:\bCHK|\bWARN|\bERROR|&\{\$msg_level})\s*\(|\$msg_type\s*=)\s*"([^"]+)"/g) {
-		push (@types, $_);
+	while ($text =~ /\b(CHK|WARN|ERROR|&\{\$msg_level})\s*\(\s*"([^"]+)"/g) {
+		if (exists($types{$2})) {
+			$types{$2} .= ",$1" if ($types{$2} ne $1);
+		} else {
+			$types{$2} = $1;
+		}
+	}
+	print("#\tMessage type");
+	if ($color) {
+		print(" (color coding: ");
+		print(RED . "ERROR" . RESET);
+		print("|");
+	        print(YELLOW . "WARNING" . RESET);
+		print("|");
+		print(GREEN . "CHECK" . RESET);
+		print("|");
+		print("Multiple levels" . RESET);
+		print(")");
 	}
-	@types = sort(uniq(@types));
-	print("#\tMessage type\n\n");
-	foreach my $type (@types) {
+	print("\n\n");
+	foreach my $type (sort keys %types) {
+		if ($color) {
+			my $level = $types{$type};
+			if ($level eq 'ERROR') {
+				$type = RED . $type . RESET;
+			} elsif ($level eq 'WARN') {
+				$type = YELLOW . $type . RESET;
+			} elsif ($level eq 'CHK') {
+				$type = GREEN . $type . RESET;
+			}
+		}
 		print(++$count . "\t" . $type . "\n");
 		if ($verbose && exists($verbose_messages{$type})) {
 			my $message = $verbose_messages{$type};
@@ -301,6 +326,18 @@ help(0) if ($help);
 die "$P: --git cannot be used with --file or --fix\n" if ($git && ($file || $fix));
 die "$P: --verbose cannot be used with --terse\n" if ($verbose && $terse);
 
+if ($color =~ /^[01]$/) {
+	$color = !$color;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^always$/i) {
+	$color = 1;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^never$/i) {
+	$color = 0;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^auto$/i) {
+	$color = (-t STDOUT);
+} else {
+	die "$P: Invalid color mode: $color\n";
+}
+
 load_docs() if ($verbose);
 list_types(0) if ($list_types);
 
@@ -321,18 +358,6 @@ if ($#ARGV < 0) {
 	push(@ARGV, '-');
 }
 
-if ($color =~ /^[01]$/) {
-	$color = !$color;
-} elsif ($color =~ /^always$/i) {
-	$color = 1;
-} elsif ($color =~ /^never$/i) {
-	$color = 0;
-} elsif ($color =~ /^auto$/i) {
-	$color = (-t STDOUT);
-} else {
-	die "$P: Invalid color mode: $color\n";
-}
-
 # skip TAB size 1 to avoid additional checks on $tabsize - 1
 die "$P: Invalid TAB size: $tabsize\n" if ($tabsize < 2);