Method

FwupdPluginUdevDeviceread_property

since: 2.0.0

Declaration [src]

gchar*
fu_udev_device_read_property (
  FuUdevDevice* self,
  const gchar* key,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Gets a value from the uevent file.

Available since: 2.0.0

Parameters

key

Type: const gchar*

Uevent key name, e.g. HID_PHYS.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

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 be 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: gchar*

TRUE for success.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.