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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:34:43 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: allow piping
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On 01/11/2008 10:30 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:23 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>> On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 10:21 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> git show 9914cad54c79d0b89b1f066c0894f00e1344131c
>> | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -
>>
>> JftSoC:
>> git show 9914cad54c79d0b89b1f066c0894f00e1344131c
>> | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl /dev/stdin
>> (and there a a few others) should also do the trick.
> 
> Not a particularly attractive command line .. Might still be a good idea
> to add this since these two forms alluded me, and are likely to allude
> people new to unix all together (who is more likely to be using this
> particular tool)..

If somebody is hacking kernel, I think he should know the - trick used in many 
programs, but do not consider this as a nack.

thanks,
-- 
Jiri Slaby
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Suse Labs
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