Method

FwupdPluginDevicebuild_instance_id

since: 1.7.7

Declaration [src]

gboolean
fu_device_build_instance_id (
  FuDevice* self,
  GError** error,
  const gchar* subsystem,
  ...
)

Description [src]

Creates an instance ID from a prefix and some key values. If the key value cannot be found, the parent and then proxy is also queried.

If any of the key values remain unset then no instance ID is added.

fu_device_add_instance_str(dev, “VID”, “1234”); fu_device_add_instance_u16(dev, “PID”, 5678); if (!fu_device_build_instance_id(dev, &error, “NVME”, “VID”, “PID”, NULL)) g_warning(“failed to add ID: %s”, error->message);

Available since: 1.7.7

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

error

Type: GError

Optional return location for an error.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
subsystem

Type: const gchar*

Subsystem, e.g. NVME

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
...

Type: 

Pairs of string key values, ending with NULL.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if the instance ID was added.