[flashrom] [PATCH] Update man page

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 06.10.2010 23:57, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 01:19:47AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> Update the man page to have correct info for the upcoming release.
>>     
>
> Looks good.
>
> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
>   

Thanks, committed in r1197.


>> Should we mention all contributors with more than one patch? Should we
>> restrict the author list to those who have substantial amounts of code
>> in flashrom? Do we have to ask people if adding their email address to
>> the manpage is OK?
>>     
>
> I'd rather remove the whole list to be honest, it's tedious to keep
> up-to-date and the manpage is the wrong place anyway IMHO (yes, I know
> I'm the one who added it there in the first place).
>
> A short sentence like "Thanks to all contributors" is sufficient IMHO,
> the details are in (C) lines in the source or in
>
>  svn log | grep -i Signed-off-by
>
> or similar.
>   

Mh. The early authors are missing in that list. You do have a point,
though. Did you mean something like this?

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Index: flashrom-manpage/flashrom.8
===================================================================
--- flashrom-manpage/flashrom.8	(revision 1199)
+++ flashrom-manpage/flashrom.8	(working copy)
@@ -476,7 +476,10 @@
 .B "  http://www.flashrom.org/trac/flashrom/newticket"
 .sp
 or on the flashrom mailing list at
+.B "<flashrom at flashrom.org>"
 .sp
+We recommend to subscribe first at
+.sp
 .B "  http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom"
 .sp
 Using flashrom on laptops is dangerous and may easily make your hardware
@@ -492,73 +495,75 @@
 .br
 Please see the individual files.
 .SH AUTHORS
-Andrew Morgan <ziltro at ziltro.com>
+Andrew Morgan
 .br
 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 .br
-Claus Gindhart <claus.gindhart at kontron.com>
+Claus Gindhart
 .br
-David Borg <borg.db at gmail.com>
+David Borg
 .br
-David Hendricks <dhendrix at google.com>
+David Hendricks
 .br
-Dominik Geyer <dominik.geyer at kontron.com>
+Dominik Geyer
 .br
 Eric Biederman
 .br
-Giampiero Giancipoli <gianci at email.it>
+Giampiero Giancipoli
 .br
-Helge Wagner <helge.wagner at ge.com>
+Helge Wagner
 .br
-Idwer Vollering <vidwer+flashrom at gmail.com>
+Idwer Vollering
 .br
-Joe Bao <Zheng.Bao at amd.com>
+Joe Bao
 .br
-Jörg Fischer <turboj at gmx.de>
+Jörg Fischer
 .br
-Joshua Roys <roysjosh at gmail.com>
+Joshua Roys
 .br
-Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
+Luc Verhaegen
 .br
 Li-Ta Lo
 .br
-Markus Boas <ryven at ryven.de>
+Markus Boas
 .br
-Mattias Mattsson <vitplister at gmail.com>
+Mattias Mattsson
 .br
-Michael Karcher <flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
+Michael Karcher
 .br
-Nikolay Petukhov <nikolay.petukhov at gmail.com>
+Nikolay Petukhov
 .br
-Patrick Georgi <patrick.georgi at coresystems.de>
+Patrick Georgi
 .br
-Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com>
+Peter Lemenkov
 .br
-Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
+Peter Stuge
 .br
-Reinder E.N. de Haan <lb_reha at mveas.com>
+Reinder E.N. de Haan
 .br
-Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
+Ronald G. Minnich
 .br
-Ronald Hoogenboom <ronald at zonnet.nl>
+Ronald Hoogenboom
 .br
-Sean Nelson <audiohacked at gmail.com>
+Sean Nelson
 .br
-Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
+Stefan Reinauer
 .br
-Stefan Wildemann <stefan.wildemann at kontron.com>
+Stefan Wildemann
 .br
-Stephan Guilloux <stephan.guilloux at free.fr>
+Stephan Guilloux
 .br
-Steven James <pyro at linuxlabs.com>
+Steven James
 .br
-Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
+Uwe Hermann
 .br
 Wang Qingpei
 .br
 Yinghai Lu
 .br
-some others 
+some others, please see the flashrom svn changelog for details.
+.br
+All authors can be reached via e-mail at <flashrom at flashrom.org>.
 .PP
 This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
 and Carl-Daniel Hailfinger.


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