Re: New sysfs interface for privacy screens

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2019-10-01 10:09:46, Mat King wrote:
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> 
> I have been looking into adding Linux support for electronic privacy
> screens which is a feature on some new laptops which is built into the
> display and allows users to turn it on instead of needing to use a
> physical privacy filter. In discussions with my colleagues the idea of
> using either /sys/class/backlight or /sys/class/leds but this new
> feature does not seem to quite fit into either of those classes.

Thank you for not trying to push it as a LED ;-).

> I am proposing adding a class called "privacy_screen" to interface
> with these devices. The initial API would be simple just a single
> property called "privacy_state" which when set to 1 would mean that
> privacy is enabled and 0 when privacy is disabled.
> 
> Current known use cases will use ACPI _DSM in order to interface with
> the privacy screens, but this class would allow device driver authors
> to use other interfaces as well.
> 
> Example:
> 
> # get privacy screen state
> cat /sys/class/privacy_screen/cros_privacy/privacy_state # 1: privacy
> enabled 0: privacy disabled
> 
> # set privacy enabled
> echo 1 > /sys/class/privacy_screen/cros_privacy/privacy_state
> 
>  Does this approach seem to be reasonable?

Not really. How does the userland know which displays this will
affect?

This sounds like something that should go through drm drivers,
probably to be selected by xrandr, rather than separate file somewhere
in sysfs.

Best regards,
									Pavel

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