Re: [External] Using IIO to export laptop palm-sensor and lap-mode info to userspace?

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:16:20 +0100
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 11/20/20 10:59 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:39:07 +0100
> > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:  
> 
> >>>>>>>> On 2020-10-03 10:02 a.m., Hans de Goede wrote:    
> >>>>>>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Modern laptops can have various sensors which are kinda
> >>>>>>>>> like proximity sensors, but not really (they are more
> >>>>>>>>> specific in which part of the laptop the user is
> >>>>>>>>> proximate to).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Specifically modern Thinkpad's have 2 readings which we
> >>>>>>>>> want to export to userspace, and I'm wondering if we
> >>>>>>>>> could use the IIO framework for this since these readings
> >>>>>>>>> are in essence sensor readings:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> 1. These laptops have a sensor in the palm-rests to
> >>>>>>>>> check if a user is physically proximate to the device's
> >>>>>>>>> palm-rests. This info will be used by userspace for WWAN
> >>>>>>>>> functionality to control the transmission level safely.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> A patch adding a thinkpad_acpi specific sysfs API for this
> >>>>>>>>> is currently pending:
> >>>>>>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11722127/
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> But I'm wondering if it would not be better to use
> >>>>>>>>> IIO to export this info.    
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >>> On newer ARM we use "label" attribute in DTS:
> >>>
> >>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7180-trogdor.dtsi
> >>>
> >>>         ap_sar_sensor: proximity@28 {
> >>>                 compatible = "semtech,sx9310";
> >>>                 reg = <0x28>;
> >>>                 #io-channel-cells = <1>;
> >>>                 pinctrl-names = "default";
> >>>                 pinctrl-0 = <&p_sensor_int_l>;
> >>>
> >>>                 interrupt-parent = <&tlmm>;
> >>>                 interrupts = <24 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
> >>>
> >>>                 vdd-supply = <&pp3300_a>;
> >>>                 svdd-supply = <&pp1800_prox>;
> >>>
> >>>                 status = "disabled";
> >>>                 label = "proximity-wifi";
> >>>         };    
> >>
> >> Hmm, interesting. I did not know iio-devices could
> >> have a label sysfs attribute (nor that that could be
> >> set through device-tree). I was thinking about adding
> >> an in_proximity_location sysfs attribute. But using
> >> labels (and standardizing a set of label names) will
> >> work nicely too.  
> > 
> > It's fairly new.   Note we also have per channel labels
> > though they are 'very new'.  Might be handy if the sensors
> > appear as a single device despite being spread over the
> > laptop.  
> 
> Interesting, the thinkpad_acpi stuff currently has 2
> proximity(ish) sensors:
> 
> 1. Laptop is close to (on) someones lap
> 2. Someone's arms are resting on or close to the palmrest
> 
> Ideally we would indeed register 1 iio-dev with separate
> channels for this, rather then having to register 2
> (and the future maybe even more) iio-devs for this.
> 
> Can you give a pointer to docs / examples of using a
> label per channel ?

Docs if done with DT binding are at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/commit/?h=testing&id=7f79711533a96b02e1e24e2e36a29b08734e36e2
ABI Docs
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/commit/?h=testing&id=3079188f821cfbdbb0b12f668335931a87eb14c6
An example using it directly rather than via DT (it's not really
DT related though in some cases the label may come from there)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/commit/?h=testing&id=1f4877218f7e2c2b914aeb69a8a0f47d59c74717

Those will probably be in Linux-next later this week.

Jonathan

> 
> >> Is there a know set of labels which ChromeOS is currently
> >> using? If we are going to use labels for this it would
> >> be good IMHO to define a set of standard labels for
> >> this in say Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-labels.  
> > 
> > If you do want to do this, please just put it under sysfs-bus-iio
> > doc.  I want this to be in the top level doc.  
> 
> Ok, ack.
> 
> Dmitry, can you perhaps dig up a full-list of labels
> which ChromeOS is currently using to identify
> proximity sensors for e.g. SAR related use?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
>