Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:42:22 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: fix-readonly-policy-use-and-floppy-ro-rw-status
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:33:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> >
> > [PATCH]: This modifies the gendisk and hd_struct structs to replace "policy"
> >  with "readonly" (as that's the only use for this field).

... for now.  IOW, NAK on that part - it's *not* a boolean and it's
intended to be used for e.g control of caching behaviour.  Stuff
like "mark it r/o for now without losing information about hw situation"
also should go there.
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