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commit b9214f94564c839a76f7d8fac7df6866cd9145f7
Author: David Sidrane <david.sidr...@nscdg.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 10 10:49:40 2020 -0700
Add some helpful documentation in checkpatch.sh.
---
tools/checkpatch.sh | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/checkpatch.sh b/tools/checkpatch.sh
index b6731f5..48b9f29 100755
--- a/tools/checkpatch.sh
+++ b/tools/checkpatch.sh
@@ -29,11 +29,14 @@ usage() {
echo "-h"
echo "-c spell check with codespell(install with: pip install codespell)"
echo "-r range check only (coupled with -p or -g)"
- echo "-p <patch list> (default)"
+ echo "-p <patch file names> (default)"
echo "-g <commit list>"
echo "-f <file list>"
echo "- read standard input mainly used by git pre-commit hook as below:"
echo " git diff --cached | ./tools/checkpatch.sh -"
+ echo "Where a <commit list> is any syntax supported by git for specifying
git revision, see GITREVISIONS(7)"
+ echo "Where a <patch file names> is a space separated list of patch file
names or wildcard. or *.patch"
+
}
check_file() {
