diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c b/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
index a354089bb747..91f9087e49dc 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
@@ -30,12 +30,19 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Toggle FT260 debugging messages");
 
 #define FT260_REPORT_MAX_LENGTH (64)
 #define FT260_I2C_DATA_REPORT_ID(len) (FT260_I2C_REPORT_MIN + (len - 1) / 4)
+
 /*
- * The input report format assigns 62 bytes for the data payload, but ft260
- * returns 60 and 2 in two separate transactions. To minimize transfer time
- * in reading chunks mode, set the maximum read payload length to 60 bytes.
- */
-#define FT260_RD_DATA_MAX (60)
+ * The ft260 input report format defines 62 bytes for the data payload, but
+ * when requested 62 bytes, the controller returns 60 and 2 in separate input
+ * reports. To achieve better performance with the multi-report read data
+ * transfers, we set the maximum read payload length to a multiple of 60.
+ * With a 100 kHz I2C clock, one 240 bytes read takes about 1/27 second,
+ * which is excessive; On the other hand, some higher layer drivers like at24
+ * or optoe limit the i2c reads to 128 bytes. To not block other drivers out
+ * of I2C for potentially troublesome amounts of time, we select the maximum
+ * read payload length to be 180 bytes.
+*/
+#define FT260_RD_DATA_MAX (180)
 #define FT260_WR_DATA_MAX (60)
 
 /*