On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0200 Stefan Tauner <[email protected]> wrote:
> The MD5 hashes of the files and flash contents are computed and printed > whenever a file > or a whole flash device is read. This can be disabled by setting CONFIG_MD5 > to no in the > makefile. > It uses a simple self-contained MD5 "library" with a permissive license in > md5.[hc]. > Its author is added to the (new) acknowledgments section in the manpage. > because there seem to be a bit of misunderstanding on the purpose of printing md5 hashes: this should not help you when you are using flashrom correctly (md5sum et al. are fine) but the poor souls (and the ones helping fixing them stuff i.e. you) when they have misused flashrom in one or another way. this allows us to verify for every log we receive which file has been used (together with the upcoming log file patch) without costing much when dealing with untrustworthy third parties (== euphemism :). size of flashrom with md5 (and libftdi linked): text data bss dec hex filename 309905 1412 9960 321277 4e6fd flashrom without the patch at all: text data bss dec hex filename 306613 1412 9960 317985 4da21 flashrom i.e. ~1% of text size. the patch does integrate well and obviously i am pro using it, but i am not insisting on this at all if the majority objects it. i just thought it is a good idea and gave it a try :) -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
