Kalra Ashish-B00888 wrote: > Hello Tejun, > > This patch will surely fix my problem, but won't it be better to set > each PMP device port link speed directly to > the host<->PMP link speed, during SATA PMP device configuration in > sata_pmp_attach(), instead of calling > sata_link_init_spd() for each link. > > The PMP chip should be responsible for matching link speed difference, > but probably there could be issues with > certain PMP chips, as it looks like in our case, where NCQ hangs are > probably caused due to link speed difference. > It should be simpler to handle it in S/W, by limiting PMP device port > link speeds to host<->PMP link speed.
Yeah, I agree. There's nearly nothing to be gained by driving downstream PHYs faster than the upstream PHY. I'll submit a patch to limit downstream port speed by upstream speed. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
