- add script to check for missing help entries of config options

  Currently we have these errors:

./modutils/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_FEATURE_QUERY_MODULE_INTERFACE'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPADDR'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPLINK'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPROUTE'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPTUNNEL'
./coreutils/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_UNIX2DOS'

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkhelp.awk b/scripts/checkhelp.awk
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1a7e0ea8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/checkhelp.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+# AWK script to check for missing help entries for config options
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006 Bernhard Fischer
+# 
+# This file is distributed under the terms and conditions of the
+# MIT/X public licenses. See http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
+# and notice http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
+
+
+/^choice/ { is_choice = 1; }
+/^endchoice/ { is_choice = 0; }
+/^config/ {
+	pos++;
+	conf[pos] = $2;
+	file[pos] = FILENAME;
+	if (is_choice) {
+		help[pos] = 1; # do not warn about 'choice' config entries.
+	} else {
+		help[pos] = 0;
+	}
+}
+/^[[:space:]]*help[[:space:]]*$/ {
+	help[pos] = 1;
+}
+BEGIN {
+	pos = -1;
+	is_choice = 0;
+}
+END {
+	for (i = 0; i < pos; i++) {
+#	printf("%s: help for #%i '%s' == %i\n", file[i], i, conf[i], help[i]);
+		if (help[i] == 0) {
+			printf("%s: No helptext for '%s'\n", file[i], conf[i]);
+		}
+	}
+}