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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
klaby · Aug 2, 2016 · 45107ff · 45107ff
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ sub list_types {
 	}
 }
 
+#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 {