From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
alex@alexanderweb.de, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Mat King <mathewk@google.com>,
rafael@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Alexander Schremmer <alex@alexanderweb.de>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: New sysfs interface for privacy screens
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 13:04:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191006110455.GC24605@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191003102254.dmwl6qimdca3dbrv@holly.lan>
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Hi!
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > FWIW, it seems that you're not alone in this; 5.4 got some support for
> > > such screens if I understand things correctly:
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=110ea1d833ad
> >
> > Oh, I didn't realize it got merged already, I thought this was
> > related...
> >
> > So we've already replicated the backlight sysfs interface problem for
> > privacy screens. :(
>
> I guess... although the Thinkpad code hasn't added any standard
> interfaces (no other laptop should be placing controls for a privacy
> screen in /proc/acpi/ibm/... ). Maybe its not too late.
There's new interface for controlling privacyguard... but perhaps we
need better solution than what went in 5.4. Perhaps it should be
reconsidered?
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-06 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-01 16:09 New sysfs interface for privacy screens Mat King
2019-10-01 16:27 ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 16:42 ` Mat King
2019-10-02 9:30 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-02 10:24 ` Daniel Thompson
2019-10-02 10:46 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-02 15:25 ` Mat King
2019-10-03 8:59 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-03 19:57 ` Mat King
2019-10-07 4:56 ` Rajat Jain
2019-10-07 8:59 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-07 13:08 ` Sean Paul
2019-10-07 16:19 ` Mat King
2019-10-07 19:31 ` Rajat Jain
2019-10-07 19:53 ` Sean Paul
2019-10-08 6:13 ` Jani Nikula
[not found] ` <CACK8Z6FF1CBmti797sYWS51j-8ag-pSL9RJ2r9NDibXk2M=tEQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-10-23 0:17 ` Rajat Jain
2019-10-23 8:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-02 15:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-10-02 17:13 ` Mat King
2019-10-03 8:19 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-03 10:22 ` Daniel Thompson
2019-10-06 11:04 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-10-06 16:48 ` Jingoo Han
2019-10-06 20:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2019-10-06 11:00 ` Pavel Machek
2019-10-06 10:58 ` Pavel Machek
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