Re: New sysfs interface for privacy screens

[Sean Paul]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 3:57 PM Mat King <mathewk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:59 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 02 Oct 2019, Mat King <mathewk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:46 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, 02 Oct 2019, Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 12:30:05PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > >> >> On Tue, 01 Oct 2019, Mat King <mathewk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> >> > Resending in plain text mode

/snip

>
> So my proposal would now be to add a new standard property to
> drm_connector called "privacy_screen" this property would be an enum
> which can take one of three values.
>
> PRIVACY_UNSUPPORTED - Privacy is not available for this connector
> PRIVACY_DISABLED - Privacy is available but turned off
> PRIVACY_ENABLED - Privacy is available and turned on

Agree with Jani, use the property presence to determine if it's supported

>
> When the connector is initized the privacy screen property is set to
> PRIVACY_UNSUPPORTED and cannot be changed unless a drm_privacy_screen
> is registered to the connector. drm_privacy_screen will look something
> like
>
> struct drm_privacy_screen_ops {
>     int (*get_privacy_state)(struct drm_privacy_screen *);
>     int (*set_privacy_state)(struct drm_privacy_screen *, int);
> }
>
> struct drm_privacy_screen {
>     /* The privacy screen device */
>     struct device *dev;
>
>     /* The connector that the privacy screen is attached */
>     struct drm_connector *connector;
>
>     /* Ops to get and set the privacy screen state */
>     struct drm_privacy_screen_ops *ops;
>
>     /* The current state of the privacy screen */
>     int state;
> }
>
> Privacy screen device drivers will call a function to register the
> privacy screen with the connector.

Do we actually need dedicated drivers for privacy screen? It seems
like something that is panel-specific hardware, so I'd suggest just
using the panel driver.

Sean

>
> int drm_privacy_screen_register(struct drm_privacy_screen_ops *ops,
> struct device *dev, struct drm_connector *);
>
> Calling this will set a new field on the connector "struct
> drm_privacy_screen *privacy_screen" and change the value of the
> property to ops->get_privacy_state(). When
> drm_mode_connector_set_obj_prop() is called with the
> privacy_screen_proptery if a privacy_screen is registered to the
> connector the ops->set_privacy_state() will be called with the new
> value.
>
> Setting of this property (and all drm properties) is done in user
> space using ioctrl.
>
> Registering the privacy screen with a connector may be tricky because
> the driver for the privacy screen will need to be able to identify
> which connector it belongs to and we will have to deal with connectors
> being added both before and after the privacy screen device is added
> by it's driver.
>
> How does that sound? I will work on a patch if that all sounds about right.
>
> One question I still have is there a way to not accept a value that is
> passed to drm_mode_connector_set_obj_prop()? In this case if a privacy
> screen is not registered the property must stay PRIVACY_UNSUPPORTED
> and if a privacy screen is registered then PRIVACY_UNSUPPORTED must
> never be set.