[flashrom-gerrit] Change in flashrom[master]: programmer: Introduce programmer alias mechanism

[Edward O'Callaghan (Code Review)]

Edward O'Callaghan has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/38671 )

Change subject: programmer: Introduce programmer alias mechanism
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Patch Set 1:

This support is somewhat required for the introduction of cros_ec_*.c friends and certainly something we wish to have unified back into upstream.

I have cleaned up the alias mechanism locally a bit modulo this patch pending review:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/flashrom/+...