From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: John McKell <mckellj@iomega.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix blockdev --getro for sr, sd, ide-floppy devs
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:27:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122082733.GD2466@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074548160.3088.11.camel@lintest.iomegacorp.com>
On Mon, Jan 19 2004, John McKell wrote:
> This 2.6.1 patch works by setting gendisk->policy to the correct value
> during initialization as the various drivers decide whether or not the
> disk is writeable. This patch persuades "blockdev --getro ..." to
> correctly report the read-only state of a newly inserted disk. This
> patch applies to sr.c, sd.c and ide-floppy.c. ide-cd.c already has
> this functionality built into it.
Patch looks good, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 8:27 UTC|newest]
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2004-01-19 21:36 [PATCH] fix blockdev --getro for sr, sd, ide-floppy devs John McKell
2004-01-22 8:27 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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2004-01-20 22:15 John McKell
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