From 469be4e266f322af4652e5d16b8b5aacade2af54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MariusVanDerWijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 20:57:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cmd: add --bal.executionmode flag (still noop)

---
 cmd/geth/main.go   | 1 +
 cmd/utils/flags.go | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/geth/main.go b/cmd/geth/main.go
index 5e90164aaa..a14e78172c 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/main.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/main.go
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ var (
 		utils.BinTrieGroupDepthFlag,
 		utils.LightKDFFlag,
 		utils.EthRequiredBlocksFlag,
+		utils.BALExecutionModeFlag,
 		utils.CacheFlag,
 		utils.CacheDatabaseFlag,
 		utils.CacheTrieFlag,
diff --git a/cmd/utils/flags.go b/cmd/utils/flags.go
index a248d4fa8a..d941141db0 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/flags.go
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ var (
 		Usage:    "Comma separated block number-to-hash mappings to require for peering (<number>=<hash>)",
 		Category: flags.EthCategory,
 	}
+	BALExecutionModeFlag = &cli.StringFlag{
+		Name:     "bal.executionmode",
+		Usage:    "EIP-7928 block-access-list execution mode (no-op placeholder)",
+		Category: flags.EthCategory,
+	}
 	BloomFilterSizeFlag = &cli.Uint64Flag{
 		Name:     "bloomfilter.size",
 		Usage:    "Megabytes of memory allocated to bloom-filter for pruning",