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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2007-10-10 16:29:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-11-28 13:58:33 -0800 |
| commit | f09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a (patch) | |
| tree | a6dca6b58f2acb594b96d0b66b9e170c2138419d /drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | |
| parent | 9e3285dba5cac12d656da66fd7d420ff1bc0ecc0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a.tar.gz lwn-f09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a.zip | |
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/scsiglue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 4 |
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) * 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 |