From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:29:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: usb-storage: always set the allow_restart flag X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc4~76^2~21 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a;p=linux-2.6 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c index 1ba19eaa19..836a34ae6e 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev) * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */ 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 { /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages