Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: check signoff when reading stdin

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 20:42:25 EST



> This change causes checkpatch to check for a missing signoff line, even
> if the filename is '-', as in the first variation of the command.

I think this is not a great idea because the most likely
use case is piping git diff output ala:

$ git diff <some_path> | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -