linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: show how to read from stdin

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Message-Id: <1200332116.31521.3.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:15 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: show how to read from stdin


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@...6.in-berlin.de>
> > Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.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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