On Di, 09.04.19 19:24, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 19:21, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote:
> > Very similar is actually "fwupd", why does that need to run all the
> > time? Seems like something that should be bus activatable, and
> > exit-on-idle, but why run it all the time?
>
> It does exit on idle, if you don't have hardware that is tricky to get
> version numbers from. If we're polling for the list of firmware
> updates once per day we don't want to cause display flicker or that
> kind of thing. ThunderBolt and MST are the main offenders here. We're
> working on it, but it's not super simple.

Hmm? Can you elaborate? Why does fwupd's runtime have something to do
with display flickers? Not grokking the connection?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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