Re: [flashrom] Using libflashrom from fwupd

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:58:25 +0100
Richard Hughes  wrote:
> If the percentage does go backwards then we need to give the user a
> really good reason of why, otherwise users *will* file issues and bugs
> about it.

However, this is inevitable sometimes as explained before... so maybe
we need some additional message passing indicating the different
reasons for a "change of plans" so that the UI can react? (which is
exactly the type of complication I wanted to avoid ;)
The other alternative to that (besides not showing exact progress) would
be to stall it while the action catches up again but that's according
to your suggestions re. "percent" not feasible either (and I fully
agree).

Using libflashrom from fwupd

[Richard Hughes]

On 17 August 2017 at 10:18, Stefan Tauner  wrote:
> However, this is inevitable sometimes as explained before... so maybe
> we need some additional message passing indicating the different
> reasons for a "change of plans" so that the UI can react? (which is
> exactly the type of complication I wanted to avoid ;)

I think a status enum of something like RESET would be enough to show
something hand-wavey in the UI, e.g. "Sorry for the delay, trying
harder..."
> The other alternative to that (besides not showing exact progress) would
> be to stall it while the action catches up again

I don't think that'll work.

Richard