Re: PATCH: fix-readonly-policy-use-and-floppy-ro-rw-status

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:33:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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