kconfig: attach help text to menus

Roman Zippel wrote:
> A simple example would be
> help texts, right now they are per symbol, but they should really be per
> menu, so archs can provide different help texts for something.

This patch does this and at the same time introduce a few API
funtions used to access the help text.

The relevant api functions are introduced in the various frontends.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
index 1199baf866ca..8be6a4269e63 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ static struct menu *rootEntry;
 
 static char nohelp_text[] = N_("Sorry, no help available for this option yet.\n");
 
+static const char *get_help(struct menu *menu)
+{
+	if (menu_has_help(menu))
+		return menu_get_help(menu);
+	else
+		return nohelp_text;
+}
+
 static void strip(char *str)
 {
 	char *p = str;
@@ -171,7 +179,7 @@ static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol *sym, const char *def)
 int conf_string(struct menu *menu)
 {
 	struct symbol *sym = menu->sym;
-	const char *def, *help;
+	const char *def;
 
 	while (1) {
 		printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text);
@@ -186,10 +194,7 @@ int conf_string(struct menu *menu)
 		case '?':
 			/* print help */
 			if (line[1] == '\n') {
-				help = nohelp_text;
-				if (menu->sym->help)
-					help = menu->sym->help;
-				printf("\n%s\n", menu->sym->help);
+				printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
 				def = NULL;
 				break;
 			}
@@ -207,7 +212,6 @@ static int conf_sym(struct menu *menu)
 	struct symbol *sym = menu->sym;
 	int type;
 	tristate oldval, newval;
-	const char *help;
 
 	while (1) {
 		printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text);
@@ -233,7 +237,7 @@ static int conf_sym(struct menu *menu)
 			printf("/m");
 		if (oldval != yes && sym_tristate_within_range(sym, yes))
 			printf("/y");
-		if (sym->help)
+		if (menu_has_help(menu))
 			printf("/?");
 		printf("] ");
 		conf_askvalue(sym, sym_get_string_value(sym));
@@ -269,10 +273,7 @@ static int conf_sym(struct menu *menu)
 		if (sym_set_tristate_value(sym, newval))
 			return 0;
 help:
-		help = nohelp_text;
-		if (sym->help)
-			help = sym->help;
-		printf("\n%s\n", help);
+		printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
 	}
 }
 
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
 			goto conf_childs;
 		}
 		printf("[1-%d", cnt);
-		if (sym->help)
+		if (menu_has_help(menu))
 			printf("?");
 		printf("]: ");
 		switch (input_mode) {
@@ -359,8 +360,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
 			fgets(line, 128, stdin);
 			strip(line);
 			if (line[0] == '?') {
-				printf("\n%s\n", menu->sym->help ?
-					menu->sym->help : nohelp_text);
+				printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (!line[0])
@@ -391,8 +391,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
 		if (!child)
 			continue;
 		if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') {
-			printf("\n%s\n", child->sym->help ?
-				child->sym->help : nohelp_text);
+			printf("\n%s\n", get_help(child));
 			continue;
 		}
 		sym_set_choice_value(sym, child->sym);