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

[Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>]

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reports many users seem to run custom compiled (and mostly outdated) kernels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.

Thanks for your consideration,
Harald


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-armmp-lpae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linux-image-armmp-lpae depends on:
ii  linux-image-4.12.0-1-armmp-lpae  4.12.6-1

linux-image-armmp-lpae recommends no packages.

linux-image-armmp-lpae suggests no packages.

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