Here's the patch that implements the fix you suggested to avoid the
I/O errors that I was running into with my new USB enclosure with a
JMicron USB/ATA bridge, while issuing scsi-io USN or other such
queries used by Fedora's mkinitrd.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9638#c85


/proc/bus/usb/devices:
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=07 Cnt=04 Dev#=  5 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=152d ProdID=2329 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=JMicron
S:  Product=USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
S:  SerialNumber=DE5088854FFF
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms

(patch applied and retested on a modified 2.6.27.2-libre.24.rc1.fc10)
Signed-off-by: NPhil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>