This could be used, for instance, to set a property on ThunderBolt controllers
inside Dell computers saying that they support forcing the power level during
coldplug. It could also be used to set the dock type for the synapticsmst hub.
Adding this level of complexity allows us to avoid the creep of HAVE_DELL and
HAVE_LENOVO into seemingly unrelated plugins, and also allows us to have
multiple vendor plugins providing the same end result with two different
vendor-specific mechanisms.
This also moves the tests into one file as gnome-desktop-testing-runner
intentionally randomizes the order and runs them in parallel where allowed.
Since tests like get-updates have to be run after the metadata injection simply
put these into one test that calls a simple script.
This is a large commit that removes all the providers and turns them into
plugins. I think having both providers _and_ plugins was super confusing.
Plugins are loaded at runtime so you could in theory develop a new plugin
without putting it in the fwupd source tree, although there are no installed
headers or PC files as I'm not sure it's a good idea at this stage.
This commit moves all the per-provider docs, tests, notes, debug dumps and test
data to plugin-specific directories -- these also allows the plugin author to
"own" more of the source tree so we don't enforce fu- prefixes and the style
guide everywhere.
This allows us to run the same action on all the plugins in the future, so we
could have a prepare(FuPlugin, FuDevice) and cleanup(FuPlugin, FuDevice) run
on *all* plugins, so doing an update using one plugin would allow us to work
around hardware quirks in other plugins.
If I've broken your out-of-tree provider it's trivial to port to the new API
with sed and a fixed up build file. If you need help please let me know.
