On Wed, 02 Oct 2019, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:09:46 -0600 > Mat King <mathewk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. :( BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
