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.