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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from google.com ([2a00:79e0:2ebe:8:b7b4:352d:eb23:66e5]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-12aa7248731sm3357533c88.4.2026.03.26.07.53.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:53:16 -0700 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Andy Whitcroft , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow correctly handle full files on stdin Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 01:46:49AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2026-03-25 at 23:20 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > checkpatch does not handle full files well when they are passed on > > stdin, because it does not know how to treat the text, and whether it is > > a C file, or a DTS file, or something else, and so it assumes that when > > it works with stdin it should be a unified diff. For full files it > > expects to have a file name as an argument and read the contents from > > disk. Unfortunately this does not well when trying to use checkpatch as > > an online linter and feed it contents of an editor buffer that have not > > made it to the disk yet. > > Why is this useful? > Why not save the buffer and then feed the file? Because when I am editing a file I am not saving it all that often. I want to have buffer diagnostic updated when I leave insert mode in vim. Thanks. -- Dmitry