Virtual Method

FwupdBiosSettingwrite_value

since: 1.9.4

Declaration [src]

gboolean
write_value (
  FwupdBiosSetting* self,
  const gchar* value,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Writes a new value into the setting if it is different from the current value.

NOTE: A subclass should handle the ->write_value() vfunc and actually write the value to the firmware.

Available since: 1.9.4

Parameters

value

Type: const gchar*

The string to write.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
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 virtual function 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 for success.