Re: Recent issue with hddtemp.

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Roger Heflin  said:
> Zero chance they back that out.   It is not a regression in the
> kernel, a valid fix exposed bad code in user space.

I wouldn't say that - Linus is very adamant about not breaking existing
user space code, which this change did.  Since this is long-standing
behavior, the fix is probably to revert the change to the existing
interface and introduce a new interface to get the "correct" behavior.