From: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:04:47 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: if no filenames then read stdin
X-Git-Tag: v4.8-rc1~52^2~55
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=45107ff6d5265b9786c62b694140d839bc3d2433;p=linux.git

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@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6f2ce0cafe6f..4de3cc42fc50 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/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 {