Over the months the original meaning of ALLOW_OFFLINE and ALLOW_ONLINE have be
lost, and there is now a confusing mixture of uses in the source tree. With this
commit we make it clear the UPDATABLE flag is used to specify when the device is
updatable (e.g. from the desktop live session, or from the systemd offline
updates mode, or both) and the NEEDS_REBOOT flag lets us know when the update
is actually going to be done.
For instance, a UEFI UpdateCapsule can be *scheduled* from either the desktop
or from the update mode (but the latter would be a bit weird), but does require
a reboot. Some devices might only be updatable outside the live session, for
instance a hard drive update or a GPU update -- there's just too much going on
with a live session and we want to tightly control what's running during the
firmware flash.
This also means we don't have to "retry" the update when scheduling an update
that really can be scheduled whenever, but just requires a reboot to apply.
Before:
$ fwupdmgr install XPS_test.cab
Retrying as an offline update...
Scheduling… UEFI firmware update failed: -1
After:
$ fwupdmgr install XPS_test.cab
Retrying as an offline update...
Scheduling… UEFI firmware update failed: libfwup.c:733 get_paths(): could not find shim or fwup on ESP: No such file or directory
As found in https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/pull/13
there are some errors with libsmbios error paths.
These need to be fixed in libsmbios, but at least avoid
running this code on those systems (and crashing fwupd).
Tracking a single smi object in the plugindata is more similar
to how other plugins operate and also allows moving FuPluginData
out of fu-dell-common, making fu-dell-tool less hacky and letting
other plugins use fu-dell-common as needed.
It now supports enabling things for other plugins too, so rather
mark any devices created by Dell as only readable, not flashable
when UEFI capsule is off.
The linker does not know which public symbol to call if a plugin calls it's own
symbol. Without this change one plugin could call into another plugin with the
wrong GsPluginData set.
Remove the dummy devices created for NVM and MST, these will
be created by other plugins. Other plugins will however
be using the Dell methods to enable these devices.
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.
