More than one person has asked about 'why call fu_plugin_update() for a
reinstall or downgrade' and I didn't have a very good answer.
The plugin API is not officially stable, and we should fix things to be
less confusing. Use the same verbs as the FuDevice vfuncs instead.
Some distributions like RHEL change the default to not autoconnect
ethernet devices. This breaks connecting to the SMBIOS-defined BMC
adapter which means all the reads fail after a 60s timemout.
Autoconnect the internal USB ethernet adapter so we can use Redfish
without user action.
The end year is legally and functionally redundant, and more importantly causes
cherry-pick conflicts when trying to maintain old branches. Use git for history.
We don't actually need either of the things it provides (looking up in source
and built, and converting to an absolute path) so just replace it with
g_build_filename() instead.
This also has the advantage that it does the right thing on Windows.
Redfish is an open industry standard specification and schema that helps enable
simple and secure management of modern scalable platform hardware.
This has only ever been tested using an emulator and not on real hardware.
