Method

FwupdPluginUdevDeviceread_sysfs

since: 2.0.0

Declaration [src] 

gchar*
fu_udev_device_read_sysfs (
  FuUdevDevice* self,
  const gchar* attr,
  guint timeout_ms,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Reads data from a sysfs attribute, removing any newline trailing chars.

Available since: 2.0.0

Parameters

attr

Type: const gchar*

Sysfs attribute name.

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

Type: guint

IO timeout in milliseconds.

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*

String value, or NULL.

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.