[PATCH 0/9] drm: Add privacy-screen class and connector properties

Lyude Paul lyude at redhat.com
Wed Sep 15 21:12:40 UTC 2021


OK! Looked over all of these patches. Patches 2 and 4 have some comments that
should be addressed, but otherwise this series is:

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>

Let me know when/if you need help pushing this upstream

On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 09:35 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is the privacy-screen related code which I last posted in April 2021
> To the best of my knowledge there is consensus about / everyone is in
> agreement with the new userspace API (2 connector properties) this
> patch-set add (patch 1 of the series).
> 
> This is unchanged (except for a rebase on drm-tip), what has changed is
> that the first userspace consumer of the new properties is now fully ready
> for merging (it is just waiting for the kernel bits to land first):
> 
>  -
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/49
>  - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1952
>  - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/1032
> 
> Having a userspace-consumer of the API fully ready for merging, clears the
> last blocker for this series. It has already has been reviewed before
> by Emil Velikov, but it could really do with another review.
> 
> The new API works as designed and add the following features to GNOME:
> 
> 1. Showing an OSD notification when the privacy-screen is toggled on/off
>    through hotkeys handled by the embedded-controller
> 2. Allowing control of the privacy-screen from the GNOME control-panel,
>    including the on/off slider shown there updating to match the hw-setting
>    when the setting is changed with the control-panel open.
> 3. Restoring the last user-setting at login
> 
> This series consists of a number of different parts:
> 
> 1. A new version of Rajat's privacy-screen connector properties patch,
> this adds new userspace API in the form of new properties
> 
> 2. Since on most devices the privacy screen is actually controlled by
> some vendor specific ACPI/WMI interface which has a driver under
> drivers/platform/x86, we need some "glue" code to make this functionality
> available to KMS drivers. Patches 2-4 add a new privacy-screen class for
> this, which allows non KMS drivers (and possibly KMS drivers too) to
> register a privacy-screen device and also adds an interface for KMS drivers
> to get access to the privacy-screen associated with a specific connector.
> This is modelled similar to how we deal with e.g. PWMs and GPIOs in the
> kernel, including separate includes for consumers and providers(drivers).
> 
> 3. Some drm_connector helper functions to keep the actual changes needed
> for this in individual KMS drivers as small as possible (patch 5).
> 
> 4. Make the thinkpad_acpi code register a privacy-screen device on
> ThinkPads with a privacy-screen (patches 6-8)
> 
> 5. Make the i915 driver export the privacy-screen functionality through
> the connector properties on the eDP connector.
> 
> I believe that it would be best to merge the entire series, including
> the thinkpad_acpi changes through drm-misc in one go. As the pdx86
> subsys maintainer I hereby give my ack for merging the thinkpad_acpi
> changes through drm-misc.
> 
> There is one small caveat with this series, which it is good to be
> aware of. The i915 driver will now return -EPROBE_DEFER on Thinkpads
> with an eprivacy screen, until the thinkpad_acpi driver is loaded.
> This means that initrd generation tools will need to be updated to
> include thinkpad_acpi when the i915 driver is added to the initrd.
> Without this the loading of the i915 driver will be delayed to after
> the switch to real rootfs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> Hans de Goede (8):
>   drm: Add privacy-screen class (v3)
>   drm/privacy-screen: Add X86 specific arch init code
>   drm/privacy-screen: Add notifier support
>   drm/connector: Add a drm_connector privacy-screen helper functions
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add hotkey_notify_extended_hotkey()
>     helper
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Get privacy-screen / lcdshadow ACPI
>     handles only once
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Register a privacy-screen device
>   drm/i915: Add privacy-screen support
> 
> Rajat Jain (1):
>   drm/connector: Add support for privacy-screen properties (v4)
> 
>  Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst        |  15 +
>  Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst                |   2 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                  |   8 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig                      |   4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile                     |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c            |   4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c              | 214 +++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c                    |   4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_privacy_screen.c         | 468 +++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_privacy_screen_x86.c     |  86 ++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c |   5 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c      |  10 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c              |  12 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                 |   2 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c         | 131 ++++--
>  include/drm/drm_connector.h                  |  56 +++
>  include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_consumer.h    |  65 +++
>  include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_driver.h      |  84 ++++
>  include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_machine.h     |  46 ++
>  19 files changed, 1175 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_privacy_screen.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_privacy_screen_x86.c
>  create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_consumer.h
>  create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_driver.h
>  create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_privacy_screen_machine.h
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat



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