On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:31 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > AFAIU Daniel's patch still leaves the possibility to use the '-' > syntax, > doesn't it? > > (The program 'cat' is of the kind which always reads from stdin if no > file name is given, or if '-' is given instead of a file name. So, > 'cat' allows Andy to start it and then type something in for cat to > process in either case, while checkpatch supports this only with '-' > as > argument. OTOH it's easier to get checkpatch to print a usage note > than > it is with cat. There you have to type no less than 'cat --help', or > at > least with GNU cat.)
I tried the following with my changes, ./scripts/checkpatch.pl - cat | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl Both allowed pasting patches and pressing Ctrl-D , then it processed the patch.. and cat <patchname> | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl Also processed the patch .. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
