Basic backlight data collection script for Lantern

lantern-collect

#!/bin/sh
# Basic backlight data collection script for Lantern
# Written by Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@canonical.com>
set -x
id=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)
dest=$(mktemp -d --suffix=-lantern)
lspci > "$dest/lspci"
lsmod > "$dest/lsmod"
uname -a > "$dest/uname"
if [ -e /etc/os-release ]; then
    cp /etc/os-release "$dest/"
fi
SCB=/sys/class/backlight
if [ -e $SCB ]; then
    mkdir "$dest/backlight"
    for device in $(ls $SCB); do
        device_dest="$dest/backlight/$device"
        mkdir "$device_dest"
        cp "$SCB/$device/max_brightness" "$device_dest/"
        cp "$SCB/$device/actual_brightness" "$device_dest/"
        cp "$SCB/$device/brightness" "$device_dest/"
        cp "$SCB/$device/type" "$device_dest/"
    done
fi
tar -Jcf "lantern-submission-$id.tar.xz" -C "$dest" .
rm -rf "$dest"
echo -- "$id"

This doesn't seem to work on the BQ phone. All the interesting values there are in/sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight. Awww, android, how I hate thee!

The same is true on Nexus 7 which uses /sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight (hmm, pattern!)

NOTE: This script is designed for Laptops. I'll prepare a second version later once I work on some extra tooling and have more questions to ask about the mobile world with Android kernel.

"(nothing sensitive or personally-identifiable though)"
http://www.zygoon.pl/2015/03/crowdsourcing-help-needed-share-your.html

Somebody might regard the uname -a reported hostname (which by default on most systems includes a username) as sensible.

This could do it:
uname -a |sed s/uname -n/fake-host/g

Oh, good point about the hostname! I didn't realize that.

I'll change how uname gets invoked so that we don't have this needless piece of info. I'm currently working on a much much better (though far more complex) version that can do some useful manual tests as well. I'll post it to the main tree at github.com/zyga/lantern.

In the meantime, you can open issues on the current version of the script there.