On Wed, Sep 14 2017, benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [adding Richard, the LVFS maintainer]
>
> On Sep 13 2017 or thereabouts, Vincent Palatin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Niels Skou Olsen <nolsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, vpalatin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Niels Skou Olsen <nolsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, vpalatin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[ snip ]
> One thing that might be worth considering is to provide the firmware through LVFS
> (adding Richard in CC).
> Once you figure out whether blacklisting or not the devices at the HID level, I am sure
> Richard would be happy to help to have the firmware upgrades directly handled in
> LVFS/fwupd so users can just rely on fwupd to update the devices (and it's just one
> clic away in gnome-software).
Yes, it would be very nice indeed to distribute our firmware for Linux users through LVFS.
Can the LVFS architecture handle proprietary (ie. closed source) updaters? Not all our
devices can be updated using dfu-util, and I am not sure all the updater code can be
open sourced.
> > > > > Could we remove the blacklisting even if the current firmware behaves a bit
> > > > > "weird" with regard to volume button handling?
> > > > > I don't think this quirk is severe enough to warrant the complete blacklisting.
> > > >
> > > > wrt 'the complete blacklisting', not really it's just disabling
> > > > instantiating a HID device by default, the USB device is still
> > > > there, adventurous people who knows what to do with it can still
> > > > ask for the HID device (e.g by passing
> > > > 'quirks=0x0b0e:0x0412:0x40000000' as usbhid module parameter to
> > > > avoid ignoring
> > > > it)
> > >
> > > That's a nice trick, but most end users can't do that.
> >
> > most end users cannot use the current firmware either ...
>
> We *could* blacklist depending on the firmware version too.
Yes, let's work on that!
Thanks,
Niels
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