[PATCH] Random manpage improvements and updates

[Uwe Hermann]

See patch.

Uwe.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Am 24.07.2011 15:17 schrieb Uwe Hermann:
> Random manpage improvements and updates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann
> Index: flashrom.8
>
> --- flashrom.8	(Revision 1380)
> +++ flashrom.8	(Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -12,13 +12,12 @@
>  .B flashrom
>  is a utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash
>  chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images in-system
> -using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards
> -(NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program
> -flash chips.
> +using a supported mainboard, but it also supports various external
> +PCI/USB/parallel-port/serial-port based devices which can program flash chips.
>  .PP
>  It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,

Sorry, Nack for that part. We can't expect users to deduce that we mean
"SATA controller" when we talk about "PCI based device which can program
flash chips". You can extend that sentence, but don't remove the
individual explicit device types.

Rest is
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:32:00PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Am 24.07.2011 15:17 schrieb Uwe Hermann:
> > Random manpage improvements and updates.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann
> > Index: flashrom.8
> >
> > --- flashrom.8	(Revision 1380)
> > +++ flashrom.8	(Arbeitskopie)
> > @@ -12,13 +12,12 @@
> >  .B flashrom
> >  is a utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash
> >  chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images in-system
> > -using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network cards
> > -(NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can program
> > -flash chips.
> > +using a supported mainboard, but it also supports various external
> > +PCI/USB/parallel-port/serial-port based devices which can program flash chips.
> >  .PP
> >  It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40,
>
> Sorry, Nack for that part. We can't expect users to deduce that we mean
> "SATA controller" when we talk about "PCI based device which can program
> flash chips". You can extend that sentence, but don't remove the
> individual explicit device types.
>
> Rest is
> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Thanks, r1387, with the changes above.

Dunno about listing _all_ types/programmers in the first paragraph, it's
getting a bit long, maybe we should just add a reference to the resp.
programmer chapter or something like that.

Uwe.