[PATCH] USB Storage: US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64 flag
This patch adds a US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64 and removes the Genesys special-cases
for this that were in scsiglue.c. It also adds the flag to other devices
reported to need it.
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
index 5715291..a4b7df9 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
@@ -112,13 +112,11 @@
if (sdev->scsi_level < SCSI_2)
sdev->scsi_level = sdev->sdev_target->scsi_level = SCSI_2;
- /* According to the technical support people at Genesys Logic,
- * devices using their chips have problems transferring more than
- * 32 KB at a time. In practice people have found that 64 KB
- * works okay and that's what Windows does. But we'll be
- * conservative; people can always use the sysfs interface to
- * increase max_sectors. */
- if (le16_to_cpu(us->pusb_dev->descriptor.idVendor) == USB_VENDOR_ID_GENESYS &&
+ /* Many devices have trouble transfering more than 32KB at a time,
+ * while others have trouble with more than 64K. At this time we
+ * are limiting both to 32K (64 sectores).
+ */
+ if ((us->flags & US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64) &&
sdev->request_queue->max_sectors > 64)
blk_queue_max_sectors(sdev->request_queue, 64);