[flashrom-gerrit] Change in flashrom[master]: [RFC] cli_classic: Add `--mode (read|write|verify|erase)` parameter

[David Hendricks (Code Review)]

Attention is currently required from: Nico Huber, Edward O'Callaghan, Daniel Campello, Angel Pons, Anastasia Klimchuk, Nikolai Artemiev.
David Hendricks has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/30979 )

Change subject: [RFC] cli_classic: Add `--mode (read|write|verify|erase)` parameter
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> > Backwards-compatible with flashrom syntax prior to CB:23021 […]

Yeah, I remember that was a concern. Does anybody remember exactly why? IIRC it was considered complicated, yet non-positional files have been supported and standard in Unix commands since before most of us were born so I have a hard time understanding that argument.

Using non-positional files as illustrated in https://flashrom.org/Per_region_file_arguments#Use_cases enables us to treat chip-sized files and region-sized files with the same, intuitive syntax without added mode flags or inconsistent use of -i/-r/-w/-v as in other proposals.