Re: [PATCH] SCSI error handling on some USB disks needs allow_restartcp

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:

> This patch uses the slave_alloc function of the SCSI host as described
> in one of the mails which said where to enable allow_restart and
> the ieee1394/spb2.c does it in the same way.
> 
> This version uses string matches against manufacturer and product
> strings because I do not yet know all the USB device IDs of those
> devices, but I know that the manufacturer / product strings look
> from looking at the relevant Gentoo bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/61235

It would be simpler just to add

	sdev->allow_restart = 1;

to slave_alloc() without all the extra tests.  It's hard to tell 
whether that would cause problems for anybody else, although in theory 
it shouldn't.

Alan Stern


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