The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: if no filenames then read stdin has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: if no filenames then read stdin If no filenames are given, then read the patch from stdin. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a8784f291ccb5067361992bf5d41ff6cfb0ce5cb.1469830917.git.allenbh@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ if ($^V && $^V lt $minimum_perl_version) } } +#if no filenames are given, push '-' to read patch from stdin if ($#ARGV < 0) { - print "$P: no input files\n"; - exit(1); + push(@ARGV, '-'); } sub hash_save_array_words { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from allenbh@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-check-signoff-when-reading-stdin.patch checkpatch-if-no-filenames-then-read-stdin.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html