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Bug#815753: fwupdmgr: thinks my internal camera is external



On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 21:37 -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> Unfortunately this is not indicative of an internally located device. 
> 
> The USB video spec [1] indicates iFunction is only an index to a string
> descriptor.
...
> Upstream is not going to track a full list of strings just to indicate a
> device is internally wired or externally wired via the USB bus, and I
> won't carry a patch doing that in Debian either.

Thanks for the info.

I wonder if the solution is to use a phrase other than "Internal" that
actually indicates what this field is used for. You mentioned "the
Internal flag is only used to relax authentication checks on removable
devices" but I'm not clear on what exactly this means. Does it mean
that "Internal: True" devices need root/sudo access to update and
"Internal: False" any be updated by any locally present user?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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