The best way of not getting something wrong is to not require it in the first
place...
All plugins now use DeviceInstanceId-style quirk matches and we can just drop
the prefix in all files. We were treating HwId=, Guid= and DeviceInstanceId= in
exactly the same way -- they're just converted to GUIDs when building the silo!
I'm finally getting around to figuring out why I get occasional hard hangs after changing from a spidle to SSD. I've disabled fwupd in the meantime to see if it makes a difference. Adding the info since I don't see it already on the list.
Some vendors want to ship updates for ATA hardware, but there are currently no
lock-down restrictions in place for these kind of devices.
There is the OUI from the WWN block which is supposed to identify the vendor,
but this is not always set and so we have to be a little creative. We can match
90% of hardware using the vendor name prefix, and the last 10% can be detected
with a heuristic that was the result of comparing over 900 drive models.
I'm not including very old drive models, media converters, raid controllers,
or external 'portable' drives as I don't think it is useful. Also, if the drive
contains a Dell vendor block just hardcode this as Dell rather than trying to
be clever.
Also ask the user to contribute OUI values if this data is found with no quirk
data as this is the only real sane way to manage this data long term.
The list of OUIs can be found here: http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui.txt
