On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:05:10AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
seriously... i thought it is better to call the chipset enable after the message. and TBH i did not put too much thought into reducing line count, because my message was already way shorter than the chip message. till now i was mainly concerned about character/word count in messages not line count. dos users... well they should get an OS, use redirection or not get in my way :P
You'd be surprised how many of our users use DOS, usually because they don't know Linux.
Just a side-note, this is not really about DOS, I use 80x25 xterms on Linux all the time. But I have no problem with one or two lines more or less in the output, either way.
DOS users have a problem with -V output already I assume, whatever they do to handle that can probably also be applied to the case without -V.
option (for me). i will try to factor in their line limit and inability to scroll (is that still correct for freedos?) in future patches though.
No idea if scrolling is possible or not. I think the best option would be to have a more finegrained control of the loglevel in flashrom, i.e. --log-level=0,1,2,3 etc. (instead of "no -V", "-V", and "-VV"), so the user can also choose 0 or 1 to get only the bare minumum output.
Uwe.