Re: [avrdude-dev] Fix warnings patch

[Brian Dean]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

> Ok, I think I'll go ahead and do this now, before the release.  I
> recommend we have an option to disable the auto erase, though.  Any
> suggestions for the option letter?  Maybe -D for "disable auto erase"?

Ok, auto erase is now the default when flash:w:... (write to flash) is
specified by any of the -U options.  The erase happens first before
any other memories are updated regardless of the order the -U options
are specified.

The -D option disables this behaviour.  The -e option still works as
expected and unconditionally erases regardless of what memory
operations are requested.

To remain backward compatible, if either -i or -o are specified, auto
erase is disabled regardless of whether any -U options are also
specified.

The old-style memory specification options (-f, -i, -I, -m, and -o)
are now deprecated.  I've flagged them as deprecated in the man page
and also print out a warning if they are used.  We should plan on
removing them at some point in the future, probably the release after
this upcoming release (or maybe the one after).

Please try this out and check to make sure it works the way you think
it should.  If you find anything wrong, please let me know.

Cheers,
-Brian
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