[PATCH] usb: storage: Increase retries for usb_stor_transport()

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This should make writing and reading more reliable.

Also:
- change loop condition to make "retries" semantically correct
- add a debug message in case of fatal failure
---
We've had problems writing (and even reading) a 10 MiB file from barebox
to multiple USB flash drives.
The 10 MiB file copy failed with "write: I/O error" almost every time.
Increasing the retry count made 100 MiB file copies succeed every time.

 drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
index 63d624e..e0ef4f5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ static int usb_stor_transport(struct us_blk_dev *usb_blkdev,
 	struct device_d *dev = &us->pusb_dev->dev;
 	int i, ret;
 
-
-	for (i = 0; i < retries; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i <= retries; i++) {
 		dev_dbg(dev, "%s\n", usb_stor_opcode_name(cmd[0]));
 		ret = us->transport(usb_blkdev, cmd, cmdlen, data, datalen);
 		dev_dbg(dev, "%s returns %d\n", usb_stor_opcode_name(cmd[0]),
@@ -105,6 +104,8 @@ static int usb_stor_transport(struct us_blk_dev *usb_blkdev,
 			mdelay(request_sense_delay_ms);
 	}
 
+	dev_dbg(dev, "Retried %s %d times, and failed.\n", usb_stor_opcode_name(cmd[0]), retries);
+
 	return -EIO;
 }
 
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ static int usb_stor_io_10(struct us_blk_dev *usb_blkdev, u8 opcode,
 	put_unaligned_be16(blocks, &cmd[7]);
 
 	return usb_stor_transport(usb_blkdev, cmd, sizeof(cmd), data,
-				  blocks * SECTOR_SIZE, 2, 0);
+				  blocks * SECTOR_SIZE, 10, 0);
 }
 
 /***********************************************************************
-- 
2.7.4


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