Commit f09e495d authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb-storage: always set the allow_restart flag

This patch (as1000) sets the SCSI allow_restart flag for USB disk
devices.  In theory this should never hurt, and there definitely are
devices out there (such as the Seagate 250-GB external drive) which
need the flag to be set.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 9e3285db
...@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev) ...@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev)
* is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */ * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */
sdev->retry_hwerror = 1; sdev->retry_hwerror = 1;
/* USB disks should allow restart. Some drives spin down
* automatically, requiring a START-STOP UNIT command. */
sdev->allow_restart = 1;
} else { } else {
/* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages
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