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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.
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USB Support
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Introduction
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This plugin reads the version numbers of USB devices. It cannot deploy firmware
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onto devices but is used to list devices with known firmware updates that may
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require booting into another operating system to apply.
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As other plugins may be able to actually deploy firmware onto the same device
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that this plugin can handle the signal emission is delayed to allow the better
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plugin to "win" and own the device. It is therefor important that the other
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plugin finishes enumeration of the device in less than 500ms.
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