Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: allow piping

[Daniel Walker]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:34 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

I'm hacking the kernel, and I didn't know the - trick .. So you have
your testing case all in one with the patch submitter ..

Daniel

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