Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Introduce a compile time option to select a default programmer.

[Peter Stuge]

Stefan Tauner wrote:
> Heavily influenced by a discussion with (and based on code from) Peter Stuge.
>
> Peter Stuge argued all evening with me that the mandatory -p parameter
> is a regression and should be fixed, because the common case is -p internal
> and that was the default programmer for most of the installations especially
> those users that dont know what they are doing. While i don't think that the
> internal programmer should be the new default default (sic) programmer
> i do see the point in having a default programmer and don't think that the
> "some user used to one default programmer could easily break $stuff when
> using another build" outweighs the freedom of maintainers to shoot their
> users in the foot especially if they are the same person. ;)
>
> We can not force any distributor to have no default programmer anyway, a
> patch that adds one is trivial. Having this build time option does not
> neccessarily make us endorsing this option either: If we deem it worth it,
> we could add a build warning and add a note in the Makefile/README to
> make maintainers consider our arguments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner

Acked-by: Peter Stuge

[PATCH] Introduce a compile time option to select a default programmer.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:55:51 +0200
Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Acked-by: Peter Stuge

Thanks Peter.
I have committed it with an additional comment in the Makefile in r1607.