[PATCH v4 1/5] command: Use a constant pointer for the help

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Sep 19 23:49:32 CEST 2021


This text should never change during execution, so it makes sense to
use a const char * so that it can be declared as const in the code.
Update struct cmd_tbl with a const char * pointer for 'help'.

We cannot make usage const because of the bmode command, used on mx53ppd
for example.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v2)

Changes in v2:
- Explain why 'usage' cannot be const

 include/command.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/command.h b/include/command.h
index 137cfbc3231..f8e07a591c6 100644
--- a/include/command.h
+++ b/include/command.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct cmd_tbl {
 			       char *const argv[]);
 	char		*usage;		/* Usage message	(short)	*/
 #ifdef	CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP
-	char		*help;		/* Help  message	(long)	*/
+	const char	*help;		/* Help  message	(long)	*/
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
 	/* do auto completion on the arguments */
-- 
2.33.0.464.g1972c5931b-goog



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