Print a warning if a 'help' token is given but the help text is blank. Personal pet peeve. Example warnings: net/sched/Kconfig:860: warning: 'NET_IFE_SKBMARK' defined with blank help text net/sched/Kconfig:865: warning: 'NET_IFE_SKBPRIO' defined with blank help text net/sched/Kconfig:870: warning: 'NET_IFE_SKBTCINDEX' defined with blank help text drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:1159: warning: 'FB_I810_I2C' defined with blank help text drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig:877: warning: 'MMC_TOSHIBA_PCI' defined with blank help text drivers/staging/rtl8192u/Kconfig:8: warning: 'RTL8192U' defined with blank help text drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/Kconfig:9: warning: 'RTL8192E' defined with blank help text lib/Kconfig.debug:354: warning: 'ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS' defined with blank help text A separate patchset will be sent to fix all current instances of blank help texts for all arches. I added the same warning to Kconfiglib. Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y index 21ce883e5d9e..4be98050b961 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y +++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y @@ -436,6 +436,12 @@ help: help_start T_HELPTEXT zconfprint("warning: '%s' defined with more than one help text -- only the last one will be used", current_entry->sym->name ?: "<choice>"); } + + /* Is the help text empty or all whitespace? */ + if ($2[strspn($2, " \f\n\r\t\v")] == '\0') + zconfprint("warning: '%s' defined with blank help text", + current_entry->sym->name ?: "<choice>"); + current_entry->help = $2; }; -- 2.14.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html