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authorhailfinger <hailfinger@2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1>2009-05-01 10:53:49 +0000
committerhailfinger <hailfinger@2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1>2009-05-01 10:53:49 +0000
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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. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> git-svn-id: https://code.coreboot.org/svn/flashrom/trunk@447 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
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@@ -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