On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 08:39:44AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Tom,
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 at 13:13, Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
In order to be able to discard unused long help texts without further linker lists, add a macro for defining the long help messages which uses __maybe_unused. This allows us to discard them as unreferenced as part of the link.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com
include/command.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/command.h b/include/command.h index 34ea989b39b4..a836ea795ab6 100644 --- a/include/command.h +++ b/include/command.h @@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ int cmd_source_script(ulong addr, const char *fit_uname, const char *confname); # define _CMD_HELP(x) #endif
+#define U_BOOT_LONGHELP(_cmdname, text) \
static __maybe_unused const char _cmdname##_help_text[] = text;I just noticed this...do you really want the ; at the end? The only purpose I can see is if you want the macro to compile to nothing. Otherwise it is more normal to put it on the invocations, isn't it?
I'll drop that when I apply it.