Hi, Aoife Moloney <amoloney@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableFwupdRefreshByDefault > *snip* > > == Detailed Description == > > Firmware for hardware devices can have bugs and firmware updates > generally help address those. Firmware updates might however need > manual interaction, a reboot or device unplug/re-plug so we can not > enable firmware update by default. > > This change thus only enable notifying about new firmware updates, not > installing them. > > With this change, Fedora installations will contact the Linux Vendor > Firmware Service CDN (LVFS, https://cdn.fwupd.org/) to get the updated > metadata but will not send any information about the hardware without > user interaction. > > See the LVFS privacy policy at > https://lvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/privacy.html. > I like this, it's a very unobtrusive change and will point some admins to apply firmware updates. Thanks for this idea! Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
