Commit 5de93414 authored by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger's avatar Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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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.

Corresponding to flashrom svn r447.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCarl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: default avatarUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
parent ddb94f7e
......@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ or SPI.
.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
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......@@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ void usage(const char *name)
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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