One of the linux-mentees, Dwaipayan Ray, asked me in a private email for ideas for improvements to checkpatch.
Though I am not his nominal mentor, my response to him was the below. Does anyone have any more ideas for checkpatch improvements or enhancements? --- On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 21:02 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > I am actually writing to you > regarding any possible ideas for checkpatch or any improvements > you would like to see moving forward with checkpatch. > > The last time you had suggested about --fix options. But as we saw > that maybe some places are better off with it. So do you have > anything particular in mind? > > Again, thanks a lot in advance. Since my mentorship will go on till > about march, I am indeed in dire need of ideas. You could: o Separate the various tests into individual modules that are aggregated at startup. o Create a test suite. o Externally document the thing with use cases, all the named tests are not particularly documented. o Add --verbose test descriptions, so 'why this message is emitted' description is optionally available to / understood by the user. o Add support for various brace location / required spacing styles.
