Avoids mistakes like in the following real-world example, where only the
final help string ("Say Y...") was used. This particular example was
fixed in commit 561b29e4ec8d ("media: fix media Kconfig help syntax
issues").

  config DVB_NETUP_UNIDVB
        ...
        select DVB_CXD2841ER if MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT
        ---help---
          Support for NetUP PCI express Universal DVB card.
       help
        Say Y when you want to support NetUP Dual Universal DVB card
        ...

This now prints the following warning:

  drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb:13: warning: 'DVB_NETUP_UNIDVB' defined with 
more than one help text -- only the last one will be used

Also free() any extra help strings.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfali...@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
index c1e4e82f56b5..06ef304ee325 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
@@ -435,6 +435,11 @@ help_start: T_HELP T_EOL
 
 help: help_start T_HELPTEXT
 {
+       if (current_entry->help) {
+               free(current_entry->help);
+               zconfprint("warning: '%s' defined with more than one help text 
-- only the last one will be used",
+                          current_entry->sym->name ?: "<choice>");
+       }
        current_entry->help = $2;
 };
 
-- 
2.14.1

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