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- What: /sys/bus/wmi/devices/6932965F-1671-4CEB-B988-D3AB0A901919/dell_privacy_supported_type
- Date: Apr 2021
- KernelVersion: 5.13
- Contact: "<[email protected]>"
- Description:
- Display which dell hardware level privacy devices are supported
- “Dell Privacy” is a set of HW, FW, and SW features to enhance
- Dell’s commitment to platform privacy for MIC, Camera, and
- ePrivacy screens.
- The supported hardware privacy devices are:
- Attributes:
- Microphone Mute:
- Identifies the local microphone can be muted by hardware, no applications
- is available to capture system mic sound
- Camera Shutter:
- Identifies camera shutter controlled by hardware, which is a micromechanical
- shutter assembly that is built onto the camera module to block capturing images
- from outside the laptop
- Values:
- supported:
- The privacy device is supported by this system
- unsupported:
- The privacy device is not supported on this system
- For example to check which privacy devices are supported::
- # cat /sys/bus/wmi/drivers/dell-privacy/6932965F-1671-4CEB-B988-D3AB0A901919/dell_privacy_supported_type
- [Microphone Mute] [supported]
- [Camera Shutter] [supported]
- [ePrivacy Screen] [unsupported]
- What: /sys/bus/wmi/devices/6932965F-1671-4CEB-B988-D3AB0A901919/dell_privacy_current_state
- Date: Apr 2021
- KernelVersion: 5.13
- Contact: "<[email protected]>"
- Description:
- Allow user space to check current dell privacy device state.
- Describes the Device State class exposed by BIOS which can be
- consumed by various applications interested in knowing the Privacy
- feature capabilities
- Attributes:
- Microphone:
- Identifies the local microphone can be muted by hardware, no applications
- is available to capture system mic sound
- Camera Shutter:
- Identifies camera shutter controlled by hardware, which is a micromechanical
- shutter assembly that is built onto the camera module to block capturing images
- from outside the laptop
- Values:
- muted:
- Identifies the privacy device is turned off
- and cannot send stream to OS applications
- unmuted:
- Identifies the privacy device is turned on,
- audio or camera driver can get stream from mic
- and camera module to OS applications
- For example to check all supported current privacy device states::
- # cat /sys/bus/wmi/drivers/dell-privacy/6932965F-1671-4CEB-B988-D3AB0A901919/dell_privacy_current_state
- [Microphone] [unmuted]
- [Camera Shutter] [unmuted]
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