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Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors

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On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 12:30 +0200, Harald Geyer wrote:
> Package: linux-image-armmp-lpae
> Version: 4.12+84
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the DHT22 sensors are quite popular temperature and humidity sensors. I'm
> the upstream driver author so I am biased but from my experience with bug
> reports many users seem to run custom compiled (and mostly outdated) kernels
> only because debian doesn't ship the kernel module for this sensor.
> 
> Also I'm switching my systems using these sensors from OpenWRT to debian
> ATM so I'm directly affeced by this as well.
> 
> Adding CONFIG_DHT11=m will be enough, however I'm less sure about the
> architectures to enable this: It will be mostly used on all variants of
> ARM but the driver works on any platform with native (ie fast enough for
> bit banging) GPIOs.

This driver appears to depend on Device Tree properties, but none of
the DTBs we build set those properties.  It's not clear to me how it
would be usable.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org> - 2017-08-25 12:40 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add  module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-09-25 00:50 +0200
  Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-09-25 00:50 +0200
    Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org> - 2017-09-25 16:30 +0200

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