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>
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
index 1ba19ea..836a34a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@
* 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