[coreboot] [flashrom] r447 - trunk
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Fri May 1 12:53:49 CEST 2009
Author: hailfinger
Date: 2009-05-01 12:53:49 +0200 (Fri, 01 May 2009)
New Revision: 447
Modified:
trunk/flashrom.8
trunk/flashrom.c
Log:
Since the command line interface for flashrom will change for 1.0
(all-caps or no-caps for short options, exclude range syntax, etc.) we
should tell users in the man page and the usage message about this.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
Modified: trunk/flashrom.8
===================================================================
--- trunk/flashrom.8 2009-04-29 23:22:33 UTC (rev 446)
+++ trunk/flashrom.8 2009-05-01 10:53:49 UTC (rev 447)
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
.B http://coreboot.org
for details on coreboot)
.SH OPTIONS
+Please note that the command line interface for flashrom will change before
+flashrom 1.0. Do not use flashrom in scripts or other automated tools without
+checking that your flashrom version won't interpret them in a totally different
+way.
+.PP
If no file is specified, then all that happens
is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
.TP
Modified: trunk/flashrom.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/flashrom.c 2009-04-29 23:22:33 UTC (rev 446)
+++ trunk/flashrom.c 2009-05-01 10:53:49 UTC (rev 447)
@@ -306,6 +306,10 @@
printf("usage: %s [-rwvEVfLhR] [-c chipname] [-s exclude_start]\n",
name);
printf(" [-e exclude_end] [-m [vendor:]part] [-l file.layout] [-i imagename] [file]\n");
+ printf("Please note that the command line interface for flashrom will "
+ "change before flashrom 1.0. Do not use flashrom in scripts or "
+ "other automated tools without checking that your flashrom "
+ "version won't interpret them in a totally different way.\n\n");
printf
(" -r | --read: read flash and save into file\n"
" -w | --write: write file into flash\n"
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