[flashrom] [PATCH] Random manpage improvements and updates

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Mon Jul 25 23:15:02 CEST 2011


On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:32:00PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, r1387, with the changes above.

Dunno about listing _all_ types/programmers in the first paragraph, it's
getting a bit long, maybe we should just add a reference to the resp.
programmer chapter or something like that.


Uwe.
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