linux-kernel - userspace regression with hwmon

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Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:33:20 +0100
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: userspace regression with hwmon

Hi Guenter, Jean,

The patch d72d19c26c41 ("hwmon: (coretemp) Convert to use
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups") has changed the location of the
sysfs nodes from /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/ to
/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon0/ and that has broken
some of our usespace applications when we have updated the kernel from
v3.8 to v4.4. For now I am reverting that said patch in our production
kernel (based on v4.4) but that is not an elegant solution.
Do you have any other reports like this? I am sure changing the paths
upstream will now break some other userspace. So, what can be an elegant
solution to our problem? or do we always need to carry an out-of-tree
patch for our production kernel?

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Regards
Sudip