Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:58:35 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make checkpatch.pl's quiet option not print the summary on no
	errors
Message-ID: <20080115215835.GB2665@elte.hu>
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* Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com> 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@linux.intel.com>
> > CC: apw@uk.ibm.com
> > 
> > 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@linux.intel.com>
> 
> 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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