On 11/5/05, Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:33:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Jon Masters <[email protected]> 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.
But it's not being used for that. The only *uses* I've seen of it
suggest that people are assuming it is a readonly marker.
If you *want* it to be used for such purposes, would you rather I sent
another patch that actually introduced read/write flags to make this
more obvious (if we must keep the existing field around)?
Jon.
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