Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: show how to read from stdin | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:15 -0800 |
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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@s5r6.in-berlin.de> > > Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.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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