Avoids mistakes like in the following real-world example, where only the
final help string ("Say Y...") was used. This particular example was
fixed in commit 561b29e4ec8d ("media: fix media Kconfig help syntax
issues").
config DVB_NETUP_UNIDVB
...
select DVB_CXD2841ER if MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT
---help---
Support for NetUP PCI express Universal DVB card.
help
Say Y when you want to support NetUP Dual Universal DVB card
...
This now prints the following warning:
drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb:13: warning: 'DVB_NETUP_UNIDVB' defined with more than one help text -- only the last one will be used
Also free() any extra help strings.
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
index c1e4e82f56b5..06ef304ee325 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
@@ -435,6 +435,11 @@ help_start: T_HELP T_EOL
help: help_start T_HELPTEXT
{
+ if (current_entry->help) {
+ free(current_entry->help);
+ zconfprint("warning: '%s' defined with more than one help text -- only the last one will be used",
+ current_entry->sym->name ?: "<choice>");
+ }
current_entry->help = $2;
};
--
2.14.1
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