[flashrom] [PATCH] Reenable forced read

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:18:06 +0100
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 16.02.2012 19:15 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
> > Forced read functionality was disabled when programmer registration was
> > merged in r.
> >
> > We now support registering more than one controller at once for each bus
> > type. This can happen e.g. if one SPI controller has an attached flash
> > chip and one controller doesn't. In such a case we rely on the probe
> > mechanism to find exactly one chip, and the probe mechanism will
> > remember which controller/bus the flash chip is attached to. A forced
> > read does not have the luxury of knowing which compatible controller to
> > use, so this case is handled by always picking the first one. That may
> > or may not be the correct one, but there is no way (yet) to specify
> > which controller a flash chip is attached to.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

as discussed on IRC this one does not segfault when there are no
registered programmers, hence
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner