[flashrom] [PATCH] flashrom.8: improve dummy programmer documentation

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Jul 24 17:46:15 CEST 2011


On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:45:34 +0200
Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:21:42AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > +The dummy programmer operates on a buffer in memory only. It provides a safe and
> > +fast way to test various aspects of flashrom and is mainly used in development
> > +and while debugging.  
> 
> Minor issue, but the "and" could be in the next line, it ends exactly on
> column 80, which makes the line look a bit "crowded" IMHO (the
> "development" has to go into the next line too, then).

isnt that how it is supposed to be? we have a line limit of 80 columns
not 79. :) and its irrelevant for the man output anyway.

> > +.sp
> > +It is able to emulate some chips to a certain degree (basic identify/read/write
> > +operations work).  
> 
> Erase does not work? If so, we should probably implement that too.
afaics erase is emulated correctly... so i agree, this should be
changed.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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