diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 38862d642f00..24b2902f8e46 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9e3285dba5cac12d656da66fd7d420ff1bc0ecc0
+refs/heads/master: f09e495df27d80ae77005ddb2e93df18ec24d04a
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/trunk/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
index 1ba19eaa1970..836a34ae6ec6 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
+++ b/trunk/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