One can use checkptach -f <filename> to run the script on source files.

For more details, check
 ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --help

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:46 AM, 慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com> wrote:
> checkpatch.pl is script to check your patch, not C file I think.
>
> 2015-11-17 13:01 GMT+08:00 Naver <earwigz@naver.com>:
>> hi,
>> i want to use a script in kernel, but i can't use this.
>> in my terminal.
>> yoon@pc:~/project/aosp/kernel/linux/scripts$ ./checkpatch.pl sortextable.c
>> Must be run from the top-level dir. of a kernel tree
>>
>>
>> Please let me know how to use this script.
>> Thanks.
>>
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