From 8f3eaad9812f62e7006ad08602444b32c3101824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans de Goede Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:23:30 +0200 Subject: Input: Add keycodes for electronic privacy screen on/off hotkeys MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add keycodes for hotkeys toggling the electronic privacy screen found on some laptops on/off. There already is an API for eprivacy screens as kernel-mode-setting drm connector object properties: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/drm-kms.html#standard-connector-properties this API also supports reporting when the eprivacy screen is turned on/off by the embedded-controller (EC) in response to hotkey presses. But on some laptops (e.g. the Dell Latitude 7300) the firmware does not allow querying the presence nor the status of the eprivacy screen at boot. This makes it impossible to implement the drm connector properties API since drm objects do not allow adding new properties after creation and the presence of the eprivacy cannot be detected at boot. The first notice of the presence of an eprivacy screen on these laptops is an EC generated (WMI) event when the eprivacy screen hotkeys are pressed. In this case the new keycodes this change adds can be generated to notify userspace of the eprivacy screen on/off hotkeys being pressed, so that userspace can show the usual on-screen-display (OSD) notification for eprivacy screen on/off to the user. This is similar to how e.g. touchpad on/off keycodes are used to show the touchpad on/off OSD. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020152331.52870-2-hansg@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen --- include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h index 4a9fbf42aa9f..9cd89bcc1d9c 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h @@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ #define KEY_BRIGHTNESS_MIN 0x250 /* Set Brightness to Minimum */ #define KEY_BRIGHTNESS_MAX 0x251 /* Set Brightness to Maximum */ +/* + * Keycodes for hotkeys toggling the electronic privacy screen found on some + * laptops on/off. Note when the embedded-controller turns on/off the eprivacy + * screen itself then the state should be reported through drm connecter props: + * https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/drm-kms.html#standard-connector-properties + * Except when implementing the drm connecter properties API is not possible + * because e.g. the firmware does not allow querying the presence and/or status + * of the eprivacy screen at boot. + */ +#define KEY_EPRIVACY_SCREEN_ON 0x252 +#define KEY_EPRIVACY_SCREEN_OFF 0x253 + #define KEY_KBDINPUTASSIST_PREV 0x260 #define KEY_KBDINPUTASSIST_NEXT 0x261 #define KEY_KBDINPUTASSIST_PREVGROUP 0x262 -- cgit