[flashrom] [PATCH] Random manpage improvements and updates

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun Jul 24 21:32:00 CEST 2011


Am 24.07.2011 15:17 schrieb Uwe Hermann:
> Random manpage improvements and updates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
>
> 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 <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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