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, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
index 61d8166166e..262908cfc2a 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ static gboolean show_all = FALSE;
 static gboolean show_debug = FALSE;
 static gboolean resizeable = FALSE;
 
-static char nohelp_text[] =
-    N_("Sorry, no help available for this option yet.\n");
-
 GtkWidget *main_wnd = NULL;
 GtkWidget *tree1_w = NULL;      // left  frame
 GtkWidget *tree2_w = NULL;      // right frame
@@ -462,12 +459,9 @@ static void text_insert_help(struct menu *menu)
         GtkTextIter start, end;
         const char *prompt = menu_get_prompt(menu);
         gchar *name;
-        const char *help = _(nohelp_text);
+        const char *help;
 
-        if (!menu->sym)
-                help = "";
-        else if (menu->sym->help)
-                help = _(menu->sym->help);
+        help = _(menu_get_help(menu));
 
         if (menu->sym && menu->sym->name)
                 name = g_strdup_printf(_(menu->sym->name));