Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x: add the camera privacy switch
From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 04:50:14 EST
On 9/14/26 10:16 AM, Oleg Keri wrote:
> The laptop has a camera privacy switch on the side of the top case - a
> slider, not a mechanical cover over the lens, and it does nothing to the
> camera itself. TLMM gpio99 follows its position: high with the switch
> open, low with it engaged. Describe it as a gpio-keys switch so userspace
> can act on it.
>
> SW_CAMERA_LENS_COVER is the only switch code the input layer has for a
> camera privacy state, and it is what the Lenovo WMI camera driver and
> Dell's privacy driver report for the same kind of electronic switch on
> x86 machines, so use it here as well despite the name.
>
> The embedded controller also raises event 0x29 whenever the switch
> moves, which makes it tempting to report it from the EC driver instead.
> That would be the wrong layer: the pin is a plain level that tracks the
> slider position and needs no EC transaction to read, and the EC event
> carries nothing the pin does not already say.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Keri <okerixx@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../boot/dts/qcom/glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x.dts | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x.dts
> index ecc8c34fb983..b5848991dffb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/glymur-lenovo-yoga-slim7x.dts
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ sleep_clk: sleep-clk {
> gpio-keys {
> compatible = "gpio-keys";
>
> - pinctrl-0 = <&hall_int_n_default>;
> + pinctrl-0 = <&hall_int_n_default>, <&cam_privacy_default>;
> pinctrl-names = "default";
>
> switch-lid {
> @@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ switch-lid {
> wakeup-source;
> wakeup-event-action = <EV_ACT_DEASSERTED>;
> };
> +
> + switch-camera-privacy {
> + label = "camera privacy switch";
nit: other DTs normally capitalize this
[...]
> + cam_privacy_default: cam-privacy-default-state {
> + pins = "gpio99";
> + function = "gpio";
> + bias-pull-up;
> + };
And the pin entries are normally sorted by their GPIO index
Otherwise, this looks good!
Konrad