Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: show how to read from stdin
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:12 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> So it does, however that of itself differs from the unix norm; as with
> this I cannot run checkpatch and "type" (ie paste) a patch fragment to
> check it.  So I don't think we want the semantics as you have there,
> as its confusing to the experienced user and inconsistent with the
> norm.
> Either we should document the standard '-' usage as has been suggested
> elsewhere or always assume stdin with no parameters.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean .. Can you give an example?

Daniel

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