[PATCH 05/25] treewide: Correct use of long help

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 5 03:23:47 CEST 2023


Hi Tom,

On Sun, 24 Sept 2023 at 17:27, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 02:39:23PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Some commands assume that CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP is always defined.
> > Declaration of long help should be bracketed by an #ifdef to avoid an
> > 'unused variable' warning.
> >
> > Fix this treewide.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> [snip]
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/cmd_dek.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/cmd_dek.c
> > index 6fa5b41fcd38..25ea7d3b37da 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/cmd_dek.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/cmd_dek.c
> > @@ -393,11 +393,12 @@ static int do_dek_blob(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
> >       return blob_encap_dek(src_addr, dst_addr, len);
> >  }
> >
> > -/***************************************************/
> > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP)
> >  static char dek_blob_help_text[] =
> >       "src dst len            - Encapsulate and create blob of data\n"
> >       "                         $len bits long at address $src and\n"
> >       "                         store the result at address $dst.\n";
> > +#endif
> >
> >  U_BOOT_CMD(
> >       dek_blob, 4, 1, do_dek_blob,
>
> This really doesn't read nicely.  I would rather (globally and fix
> existing users) __maybe_unused this instead.  I think there's just one
> example today that isn't "foo_help_text".

Hmm, what do you think about adding a __longhelp symbol to cause the
linker to discard it when not needed?

Regards,
Simon


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