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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
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ISH Support
Srinivas Pandruvada from Intel announced a set of patches to better support integrated sensor hub (ISH) chips under Linux. ISH chips support motion detection and other sensors, more tightly integrated than earlier external sensor hardware. Srinivas's code didn't change the application binary interface (ABI) at all, so existing software should run fine and properly detect and use ISH chips without needing to be recompiled. But this initial release was mostly intended as a request for comments, rather than an actual submission for inclusion in the kernel tree.
Atri Bhattacharya, Daniel Turton, and Grant Likely all thanked Srinivas for sending these patches along. Atri reported that the patches correctly detected the ISH chip on his Lenovo Yoga 260, though it had trouble using the ISH sensors. In particular, suspend and wakeup became very slow, and he noticed a lot of time outs in the logs.
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