From 5de93414ac0396b7bfc765e50571b1ebcc9648c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 10:53:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Acked-by: Uwe Hermann --- flashrom.8 | 5 +++++ flashrom.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8 index cf6f5fd50..805397d58 100644 --- a/flashrom.8 +++ b/flashrom.8 @@ -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 diff --git a/flashrom.c b/flashrom.c index 0e3049c7f..36d145f9d 100644 --- a/flashrom.c +++ b/flashrom.c @@ -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"