From 45107ff6d5265b9786c62b694140d839bc3d2433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:04:47 -0700
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@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>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')

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 {
-- 
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