Bart, > Since nobody knows what "policy" means, rename the field to "read_only" > for clarity. Martin Petersen proposed this earlier - see also his patch > "scsi: sd: block: Fix regressions in read-only block device handling" > (https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg129146.html). This patch > is an extension of a subset of Martin's patch. I'd rather we just get this one merged: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10967367/ It even comes with a shiny blktest. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering