Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: checkpatch: add description if no filenames are given

[Dwaipayan Ray]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 3:13 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:30 AM Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > After commit 45107ff6d526 ("checkpatch: if no filenames then read stdin"),
> > if no filenames are given, it will read patch from stdin rather than exit
> > directly. This means the script waits for input indefinitely, which
> > confuses new checkpatch users at first.
> >
> > Add some basic documentation on this behaviour of checkpatch to lower
> > the confusion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > v3: Update the commit message, thank you Lukas.
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dwaipayan, can you acknowledge this as well?
>

Yes it looks good to me too. Thanks for the patch Tiezhu.

Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>

> Jonathan, I assume you will pick this up in your doc tree once
> Dwaipayan ack is there, right?
>
> Lukas
>
> >  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> > index 51fed1b..3eb9ead 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> > @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Usage::
> >
> >    ./scripts/checkpatch.pl [OPTION]... [FILE]...
> >
> > +When FILE is -, or absent, checkpatch reads from standard input.
> > +
> >  Available options:
> >
> >   - -q,  --quiet
> > --
> > 2.1.0
> >