[PATCH] Clean up Kconfig and source for a couple device tree commands.

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Jul 7 11:09:53 PDT 2014


On 05:11 Mon 07 Jul     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Jul 5, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Correct options listings for a couple device tree-related commands.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  i *think* the following is valid.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/commands/Kconfig b/commands/Kconfig
> > > index eed6fbd..3248de9 100644
> > > --- a/commands/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/commands/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1950,10 +1950,11 @@ config CMD_OFTREE
> > > 	help
> > > 	  oftree - handle device trees
> > >
> > > -	  Usage: oftree [-lpfdn] [DTB]
> > > +	  Usage: oftree [-lspf] [DTB]
> > >
> > > 	  Options:
> > > 		  -l		Load DTB to internal device tree
> > > +		  -s		save internal device tree to DTB
> > > 		  -p		probe devices from stored device tree
> > > 		  -f		free stored device tree
> > >
> >
> > do we really need the help here
> >
> > it’s a pain in the ass to keep it sync
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
>   i'd have to agree ... there's quite a lot of help info that's out of
> sync between the Kconfig entries and the source file entries. for
> example, check out the Kconfig entry for the "boot" command:
> 
> config CMD_BOOT
>         tristate
>         select BOOTM
>         prompt "boot"
>         help
>         ... snip ...
>           Options:
>               -c         crc check uImage data
>               -d         dryrun: check data, but do not run
>               -f         load images even if type is undetectable
>               -r INITRD  specify an initrd image
>               -L ADDR    specify initrd load address
>               -a ADDR    specify os load address
>               -e OFFS    entry point to the image relative to start (0)
>               -o DTS     specify open firmware device tree
>               -v         verbose
> 
> versus what's in the command source file:
> 
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Options:")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-v","Increase verbosity")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-d","Dryrun. See what happens but do no actually boot")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-l","List available boot sources")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-m","Show a menu with boot options")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-t SECS","specify timeout in SECS")
> BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_END
> 
> and there are quite a few other examples of mismatches like that.

So we should simply drop them from Kconfig

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> rday
> 
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