We're planning to ship fwupd 1.4.x in RHEL 8 and so it makes sense to have a
stable branch to do point releases. I don't intend to release versions 1.5.x
any time soon, so moderately-agressive backporting to 1_4_X is okay.
The kernel interface for force power doesn't support tracking the state
of the device, and so this had to be tracked by fwupd.
Unfortunately due to system and thunderbolt controller firmware behavior
on some systems the thunderbolt controller /still/ didn't return even
when force power state was accurately tracked.
The device model for the uevent related to the device removal being ignored
doesn't really fit into the current fwupd architecture anymore either.
Lastly this is a very legacy feature at this point. Thunderbolt3 controllers
distributed in the last 3 years all operate in 'native' mode meaning that
they will always be powered and use runtime power management.
USB4 controllers won't have a concept of being force powered.
USB4 reimers will have this concept, but the state will be tracked by the
kernel and obfuscated from userspace.
So with all that said, tear out all of the force power related code.
The returned ID is the result of the SHA1 hash of the actual device ID. This
does not match anything found by the client, and so the install fails.
The symbol is exported as I think the device ID is an important identifier and
used in various fwupd tools.
When backported to the stable branch the verification should just be a static
function in src/fu-engine.c rather than a new symbol.
This means we do not have to manually set the quirks for each child, and means
we get the quirk set at object construction before any instance IDs are set.
This also means we do the right thing when plugins call fu_device_add_flag()
directly, instead of just from a quirk file.
For instance, now `Flags = ~updatable` is a valid and useful thing to have and
allows us to remove the `Flags = None` hack.
This is nice in theory, until you need to look at the bootloader status of the
parent, or of a different device entirely. Handle this in plugins for the few
cases we care about and stop setting or clearing IS_BOOTLOADER manually just to
get the vfuncs to be run.
Note: I do not think we want to use cleanup() for attaching devices not in
bootloader states -- as cleanup is only run at the end of the composite update.
We use the ParentGuid quirk key to logically 'tie-together' different discrete
devices into one logical device, for instance making the USB soundcard in a hub
the child of the USB controller on the same PCB.
Setting the discrete child is sometimes correct, for instance when rebooting
the hub, the audio device also goes away -- but it's also sometimes wrong.
If we set the child for a discrete device and the parent does *not* go away
then we get to a situation where the child reference may no longer be valid
if it comes back as a different object.
When we try to remove this no-longer-valid device with the removal timeout the
daemon segfaults. This is realy bad.
Continue to allow using fu_device_add_child() in plugins, where we know the
child lifecycle is is matched by the the parent. In the engine just set the
parent ID directly and let the client use this information to show the tree of
logical devices correctly. There's no benefit to setting up the children as
referenced objects anyway.
Sometimes plugins need to retry various commands send to hardware, either due
to unreliable transfers (e.g. using USB bulk) or from slightly quirky hardware.
Between them they seem to get various things wrong; either the error messages
are repeated and thus difficult to parse, or they just get the memory handling
of `g_propagate_prefixed_error()` wrong.
Providing sane helpers we can reduce the amount of boilerplate. Additionally
we can support a 'reset' function that can try to automatically recover the
hardware for specific error domains and codes.
Sometimes we only want to add the instance ID to get the quirk matches, and it
is confusing to see the "fake" IDs in the 'fwupdmgr get-devices' output.
A Jcat file can be used to store GPG, PKCS-7 and SHA-256 checksums for multiple
files. This allows us to sign a firmware or metadata multiple times (perhaps
by the OEM and also then the LVFS) which further decentralizes the trust model
of the LVFS.
The Jcat format was chosen as the Microsoft catalog format is nonfree and not
documented. We also don't want to modify an existing .cat file created from WU
as this may make it unsuitable to use on Windows.
More information can be found here: https://github.com/hughsie/libjcat
Quite a few plugins use HID commands to communicate with the hardware. At the
mement we have ~6 implementations of SET_REPORT and are soon to add one more.
Move this into common code.
If we do not ->open() the device (e.g. because it uses a parent device to proxy
writes) then the child never gets a DeviceID which causes all kinds of issues.
When CPU microcode is distributed it typically is versioned in
hexadecimal in all tools. Converting it to any of the existing version
formats provides an unexpected result that requires converting back to
hexadecimal.
