Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:42:22 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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