I have updated the patch according to feedbacks I received. The main modification was to warn the user and ask for confirmation before downloading a firmware image. A -y option has been added that suppresses the confirmation-- the same as the one for the format command.
The new patch is against HEAD and could be downloaded from: http://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/patches/fwdownload.diff Reviews/suggestions are greatly appreciated. Nima Misaghian [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig > Rodrigues > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:06 PM > To: Nima Misaghian > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Nima Misaghian > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have got code developed by Andre Albsmeier that is capable of > > programming firmware of hard drives from several vendors and turned > > it into a camcontrol command. > > +1 > > I took a look at your patch and it looks great. I have worked on a > storage product before where there > was a requirement to reprogram the firmware of hard drives. On tha > product, > proprietary Windows tools had to be used. It would have been nice to > be able to use camcontrol in FreeBSD. > > I think the patch is fine in its current form. Very few "regular > users" need to reprogram hard drive firmware. > It is a special administrative operation. > > -- > Craig Rodrigues > [email protected]
fwdownload.diff
Description: fwdownload.diff
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