Method

FwupdPluginDeviceprepare

since: 1.3.3

Declaration [src]

gboolean
fu_device_prepare (
  FuDevice* self,
  FuProgress* progress,
  FwupdInstallFlags flags,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Prepares a device for update. A different plugin can handle each of FuDevice->prepare(), FuDevice->detach() and FuDevice->write_firmware().

Available since: 1.3.3

Parameters

progress

Type: FuProgress

A FuProgress.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

flags

Type: FwupdInstallFlags

Install flags.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE on success.