Since the command line interface for flashrom will change for 1.0
(all-caps or no-caps for short options, exclude range syntax, etc.) we
should tell users in the man page and the usage message about this.
Corresponding to flashrom svn r447.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
diff --git a/flashrom.8 b/flashrom.8
index cf6f5fd..805397d 100644
--- a/flashrom.8
+++ b/flashrom.8
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
.B http://coreboot.org
for details on coreboot)
.SH OPTIONS
+Please note that the command line interface for flashrom will change before
+flashrom 1.0. Do not use flashrom in scripts or other automated tools without
+checking that your flashrom version won't interpret them in a totally different
+way.
+.PP
If no file is specified, then all that happens
is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
.TP