Hi,
On 25-Nov-24 2:14 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 01:01:14PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
On 18-Nov-24 5:47 PM, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 at 16:43, Hans de Goede wrote:
On 15-Nov-24 9:20 AM, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 00:06, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
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Is there any ACPI- or WMI-provided information that could assist with associating a privacy GPIO with a camera ?
I just realized I did not answer this question from Laurent in my previous reply.
No unfortunately there is no ACPI- or WMI-provided information that could assist with associating ACPI/WMI camera privacy controls with a specific camera. Note that these are typically not exposed as a GPIO, but rather as some vendor firmware interface.
Thinking more about this I'm starting to believe more and more that the privacy-control stuff should be handled by libcamera and then specifically by the pipeline-handler, with some helper code to share functionality where possible.
E.g. on IPU6 equipped Windows laptops there may be some ACPI/WMI driver which provides a /dev/input/event# SW_CAMERA_LENS_COVER node.
Using an event device means that the user would need permissions to access it. Would distributions be able to tell the device apart from other event devices such as mouse/keyboard, where a logged user may not have permission to access all event devices in a multi-seat system ?
input events modaliases contain a lot of info, including what sort of events they report, e.g. :
[hans@shalem uvc]$ cat /sys/class/input/input36/modalias input:b0003v046Dp405Ee0111-e0,1,2,3,4,11,14,k71,72,73,74,75,77,78,79,7A,7B,7C,7D,7E,7F,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,8A,8B,8C,8E,8F,90,96,98,9B,9C,9E,9F,A1,A3,A4,A5,A6,A7,A8,A9,AB,AC,AD,AE,B0,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,BA,BB,BC,BD,BE,BF,C0,C1,C2,CC,CE,CF,D0,D1,D2,D4,D8,D9,DB,DF,E0,E1,E4,E5,E6,E7,E8,E9,EA,EB,F0,F1,F4,100,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,11A,11B,11C,11D,11E,11F,161,162,166,16A,16E,172,174,176,177,178,179,17A,17B,17C,17D,17F,180,182,183,185,188,189,18C,18D,18E,18F,190,191,192,193,195,197,198,199,19A,19C,1A0,1A1,1A2,1A3,1A4,1A5,1A6,1A7,1A8,1A9,1AA,1AB,1AC,1AD,1AE,1AF,1B0,1B1,1B7,1BA,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,24A,24B,24C,24D,250,251,260,261,262,263,264,265,r0,1,6,8,B,C,a20,m4,l0,1,2,3,4,sfw
So I believe that we can create a udev rule which matches on input devices with SW_CAMERA_LENS_COVER functionality and set a uaccess tag on those just like it is done for /dev/video# nodes.
Or we can just use a specific input-device-name (sub) string and match on that.
This may require using a separate input_device with just the SW_CAMERA_LENS_COVER functionality in some of the laptop ACPI / WMI drivers, but that is an acceptable compromise IMHO.
(we don't want to report privacy sensitive input events on these nodes to avoid keylogging).
Would compositors be able to ignore the device to let libcamera handle it ?
input devices can be opened multiple times and we want the compositor to also open it to show camera on/off OSD icons / messages.
If opened multiple times all listeners will get the events.
We could include the evdev in the MC graph. That will of course only be possible if the kernel knows about that association in the first place. At least the 1st category of devices would benefit from this.
Yes I was thinking about adding a link to the MC graph for this too.
Ricardo I notice that in this v3 series you still create a v4l2-subdev for the GPIO handling and then add an ancillary link for the GPIO subdev to the mc-graph. But I'm not sure how that is helpful. Userspace would still need to do parent matching, but then match the evdev parent to the subdev after getting the subdev from the mc. In that case it might as well look at the physical (USB-interface) parent of the MC/video node and do parent matching on that avoiding the need to go through the MC at all.
I think using the MC could still be useful by adding a new type of ancillary link to the MC API which provides a file-path as info to userspace rather then a mc-link and then just directly provide the /dev/input/event# path through this new API?
I don't think we need that. MC can model any type of entity and report the device major:minor. That plus ancillary links should give us most of what we need, the only required addition should be a new MC entity function.
Ah interesting yes that should work nicely.
Regards,
Hans