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

[Stefan Richter]

Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:12 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> with this I cannot run checkpatch and "type" (ie paste) a patch
>> fragment to check it.
...
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean .. Can you give an example?

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.)
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