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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-10-10 16:29:02 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-11-28 16:58:33 -0500
commitf09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a (patch)
treea6dca6b58f2acb594b96d0b66b9e170c2138419d /drivers/usb/storage
parent9e3285dba5cac12d656da66fd7d420ff1bc0ecc0 (diff)
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 <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/storage')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
index 1ba19eaa1970..836a34ae6ec6 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)
177 * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */ 177 * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */
178 sdev->retry_hwerror = 1; 178 sdev->retry_hwerror = 1;
179 179
180 /* USB disks should allow restart. Some drives spin down
181 * automatically, requiring a START-STOP UNIT command. */
182 sdev->allow_restart = 1;
183
180 } else { 184 } else {
181 185
182 /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages 186 /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages