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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/flashrom.c b/flashrom.c
index 0e3049c..36d145f 100644
--- a/flashrom.c
+++ b/flashrom.c
@@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ void usage(const char *name)
 	printf("usage: %s [-rwvEVfLhR] [-c chipname] [-s exclude_start]\n",
 	       name);
 	printf("       [-e exclude_end] [-m [vendor:]part] [-l file.layout] [-i imagename] [file]\n");
+	printf("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.\n\n");
 	printf
 	    ("   -r | --read:                      read flash and save into file\n"
 	     "   -w | --write:                     write file into flash\n"