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

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 07:23:47PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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?

Well, I don't think we need linker list magic when __maybe_unused will
just have them be discarded normally.

-- 
Tom
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