[flashrom] [PATCH] Allow programmers to disallow writes

[Michael Karcher]

Am Donnerstag, den 01.07.2010, 17:32 +0200 schrieb Carl-Daniel
Hailfinger:
> This feature will be used by the Nvidia MCP SPI code, and it also might
> make sense for the gfxnvidia driver which has non-working write/erase.
The feature looks good, but...

> +/* Is writing allowed with this programmer? */
> +int programmer_may_write = 1;
> +
... libflashrom guys are going to hate you for another global variable,
I guess. And they *will* hate you for statically initialized global
variables, because if a GUI wants to flash twice, and the first attempt
sets programmer_may_write to zero, the second flashing process will also
run into the "you don't want to write" test. Can't you set this variable
to 1 at the top of the generic programmer_init function?

This patch (and a patch dynamically initializing the variable at said
point in code) are

Acked-by: Michael Karcher <flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

Regards,
  Michael Karcher