Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: tag -1 moreinfo 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 reports many users seem to run custom compiled (and mostly outdated) kernels 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 Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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