On Monday 29 December 2008 16:47:40 Larry Finger wrote:
> Program ssb-sprom has gotten unwieldy as more versions of the SPROM have been
> accommodated. As we now need to add Rev. 8 SPROMs for LP and N PHY devices, I
> chose to rewrite the program now.
> 
> This patch converts the program to be driven by a table, which removes the 
> need
> for hard coding a number of revision-specific values. In fact, only two such
> numbers are defined in the new header - the SPROM sizes for 128 and 440 byte
> versions. Other changes include modifying the data order so that the variables
> that are most likely to be changed are at the botton the list. I also removed
> the SPROM revision from the list that could be modified. Changing this value
> would BRICK the device. At the moment, only the first of the "per-path"
> variables have been added for revisions 4, 5, and 8. As we gain more 
> experience
> with these variants, addition of new outputs may be necessary.

Thanks, I applied this.
Is it possible, however, to have ssb_sprom --help not ask for the version?
Simply print out _all_ options that apply to all versions.
It's kind of confusing to see a question about a file version, if we don't
have a file at all when just requesting commandline help.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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