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 > >