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.
Based on a patch by Twain Byrnes <binarynewts@google.com>, many thanks.
Use this to test:
sudo FWUPD_TEST_PLUGIN_XML="<config><delay_decompress_ms>100</delay_decompress_ms></config>" \
./src/fwupdtool --plugins test get-devices -v
Currently the SUCCESS state overrides reboot-needed, thus making the
devices considered for successive git-upgrades within same boot. The
change preserves the REBOOT_NEEDED state. It also added a missed
'changed' signal, which otherwise would skip updating the persistent
state.
Change-Id: I6f60606f2253d89eab2f5bddceba19d19c4c9c97
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!
Devices may want to support more than one protocol, and for some devices
(e.g. Unifying peripherals stuck in bootloader mode) you might not even be able
to query for the correct protocol anyway.
When this is done, include:
* Including the hash
* Including anything that is not ABI stable in plugins yet
Suggested-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Asking the user for the UID mapping isn't working very well, as it requires lots
of manual handholding. It also doesn't work very well when the device vendor
does not actually have a PCI ID or if the vendor has split into two entities.
Just use the OUI address as an additional VendorID and match any of the device
IDs against any of the metadata-supplied values.
If we say that the version format should be the same for the `version_lowest`
and the `version_bootloader` then it does not always make sense to set it at
the same time.
Moving the `version_format` to a standalone first-class property also means it
can be typically be set in the custom device `_init()` function, which means we
don't need to worry about *changing* ther version format as set by the USB and
UDev superclass helpers.
Some hardware does not handle upgrading from version 1.2.2 to 1.2.4 and instead
needs to be upgraded from 1.2.2->1.2.3->1.2.4 so that on-device metadata can be
migrated correctly.
Add a new per-device flag `install-all-releases` which causes the daemon to not
skip directly to the newest release. This is designed to be set from a quirk
file.
This can obviously only be used for devices that can apply firmware "live" and
thus do not need a reboot or system shutdown to actually apply the firmware.
This also needs the cabinet archive to ship multiple versions of the firmware,
and for the metainfo.xml file to refer to multiple release objects.
Some plugins have devices with more than one protocol. Logically the protocol
belongs to the device, not the plugin, and in the future we could use this to
further check firmware that's about to be deployed.
This is also not exported into libfwupd (yet?) as it's remains a debug-feature
only -- protocols are not actually required for devices to be added.
This leads to madness, as some formats are supersets of the detected types,
e.g. 'intel-me' is detected as 'quad' and 'bcd' is detected as 'pair'.
Where the version format is defined in a specification or hardcoded in the
source use a hardcoded enum value, otherwise use a quirk override.
Additionally, warn if the version does not match the defined version format
This is intended for devices that it is not safe to immediately activate
the firmware. It may be called at a more convenient time instead.
Both fwupdmgr and fwupdtool support the feature.
- if called at runtime with fwupdmgr it uses the daemon
- during shutdown fwupdtool uses the pending.db to perform this feature.
Future metadata from the LVFS will set the protocol the firmware is expected to
use. As vendors love to re-use common terms like DFU for incompatible protocols,
namespace them with the controlling company ID with an approximate reverse DNS
namespace.
This also allows more than one plugin to define support for the same protocol,
for instance rts54hid+rts54hub and synapticsmst+dell-dock.
This allows a frontend to call update on an individual device ID which will
cause a CAB file to be downloaded, but then also re-use the same CAB file to
try to process devices with a relationship as part of a transaction.
This reverts commit 6b0eb07886.
Per debian bug 896012 this is intentional behavior and a problem with
linitin. An additional commit will be added to ignore this lintian
error.
This is a workaround for what looks like a compiler bug introduced
in Debian and Ubuntu gcc-7.
After the compiler bug is sorted in Debian testing it should be
reverted.
Previous to having the history database we could only notify about firmware that
as installed using the uefi plugin, as that had a few system-wide API calls to
say 'this update failed' or 'this was the error'.
Now we have the local history database not only can we report more details about
the UEFI update (e.g. the old version number) but we can also offer the same
functionality for all other plugins.
Although this does rework how the data for GetResults() is populated, it does
make the FuEngine object quite a lot less confused.
It also fixes a warning in the fwupd plugin for gnome-software, which was
expecting the FwupdRelease to be populated for the FwupdDevice.
This does mean fixing up the version numbers. The idea is that we have a
virtual device that goes from 1.2.2->1.2.3 for an update, and 1.2.3->1.2.2 for
a downgrade.
Rename FuPending to FuHistory to better represent what the object is now doing.
Also, while we're here, switch to using SQLite prepared statements to avoid a
possible invalid read on i386 hardware.
This makes more sense; we're updating the device, not the plugin itself.
This also means we don't need to funnel everything through callbacks like
GFileProgressCallback and we can also update the state without adding an
explicit callback to each derived device type.
This allows us to show the devices in a GUI with a nice icon. Some of the icon
mappings are not perfect and I'll be asking the GNOME designers for some
additions to the icon specification.
Custom vendor icons can also be specified, and /usr/share/fwupd/icons would be
a good place to put them. If vendor icons are used they should show a physical
device with the branding, rather than just the vendor logo.
