diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index a07c0f366f91827fa869ec4751d3586280aff2d4..a986e9bbba3d2972770f9e2a8196bea6eb119a0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -159,3 +159,14 @@ Description:
 		device.  This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
 		match the driver to the device.  For example:
 		# echo "046d c315" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/foo/remove_id
+
+What:		/sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset
+Date:		December 2009
+Contact:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
+Description:
+		Writing 1 to this file tells the kernel that this
+		device will morph into another mode when it is reset.
+		Drivers will not use reset for error handling for
+		such devices.
+Users:
+		usb_modeswitch
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
index 5f3908f6e2dc12f455b9036da9621478976a3dd9..b1725abf6c7bbea64fb76c51270dfc64ff3de87f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
@@ -190,6 +190,36 @@ show_quirks(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(quirks, S_IRUGO, show_quirks, NULL);
 
+static ssize_t
+show_avoid_reset_quirk(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct usb_device *udev;
+
+	udev = to_usb_device(dev);
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", !!(udev->quirks & USB_QUIRK_RESET_MORPHS));
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+set_avoid_reset_quirk(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+		const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct usb_device	*udev = to_usb_device(dev);
+	int			config;
+
+	if (sscanf(buf, "%d", &config) != 1 || config < 0 || config > 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	usb_lock_device(udev);
+	if (config)
+		udev->quirks |= USB_QUIRK_RESET_MORPHS;
+	else
+		udev->quirks &= ~USB_QUIRK_RESET_MORPHS;
+	usb_unlock_device(udev);
+	return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(avoid_reset_quirk, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
+		show_avoid_reset_quirk, set_avoid_reset_quirk);
+
 static ssize_t
 show_urbnum(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
@@ -558,6 +588,7 @@ static struct attribute *dev_attrs[] = {
 	&dev_attr_version.attr,
 	&dev_attr_maxchild.attr,
 	&dev_attr_quirks.attr,
+	&dev_attr_avoid_reset_quirk.attr,
 	&dev_attr_authorized.attr,
 	&dev_attr_remove.attr,
 	NULL,