Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: show how to read from stdin
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
       Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:17 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:06:35PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> > Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> 
> As an absolute minimum this seems reasonable to me.  I guess we could
> make no arguments default to '-' also.  There are up and downsides to
> doing that, as currently no arguments currently tell you the usage and
> with this patch would point clearly out the '-' option.  Just assuming
> stding would lose easy access to usage, which may actually be more
> confusing for the beginner.  Hmmm.  Cirtainly will include this
> documentation change if nothing else.
> 

The patch that I submitted checks STDIN for piped data, and if there is
any it will default to checking that incoming data .. That's regardless
of the number of arguments given .. 

Daniel

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