Official Raspberry Pi 4 fan? (Yes!, instructions inside)

Has anyone gotten the official Raspberry Pi 4 fan working on OpenWRT, with active third-pin control using a temperature-monitoring daemon a la Raspbian?

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Self-answering - yes, it can be done rather trivially.

You'll need the following modules installed:

kmod-hwmon-core
kmod-hwmon-gpiofan
kmod-i2c-core

and (assuming a standard official Pi 4 fan on GPIO 14) an entry in /boot/config.txt that looks thusly:

dtoverlay=gpio-fan,gpiopin=14,temp=80000

(these are the Raspberry Pi Foundation defaults, obviously adjust gpiopin if you've moved yours and temp to taste)

Reboot and enjoy the thermally-dynamic active cooling!

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