On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:52:41PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > flashrom -e -- erase > > flashrom -r -- read > > flashrom -w -- write > > flashrom -v -- verify > > > > flashrom -any combination -- mistake > > I really like this. May I humbly request we auto-verify both erase and > write operations to give the user feedback if an operation failed. Right > now it can happen that erase or write fails and the user it not told > about it.
Yes, please, that sounds sensible to me. Auto-verify is great. Also for read, or does that not make much sense? > > Otherwise, no matter how you set this up, you're going to violate > > somebody's principle of least surprise. This thread already shows how. > > > > True. Except for speed reasons, there shouldn't be any opposition to > auto-verify. (For disabling auto-verify, a separate option could be added.) Sounds perfect with that extra option to disable auto-verify. > Basically, we'd keep --verify as standalone operation, but it would be > invoked automatically for erase and write. Yes. > Thoughts? I have a patch pending for this. I'll clean it up and send. Please! Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
