Hello, David. On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 04:17:25PM -0600, David Milburn wrote: > During hotplug, it is possible for 6Gbps link speed to > be limited all the way down to 1.5 Gbps which may lead > to a slower link speed when drive is re-connected. Can you please explain the scenario with more details? > /* Mask off all speeds higher than or equal to the current > - * one. Force 1.5Gbps if current SPD is not available. > + * one. At this point if current SPD is not available and we > + * previously recorded the link speed from the Status register, > + * the driver has already masked off the highest bit so mask > + * should already be set to 1 or 0. Otherwise, we should > + * not force 1.5Gbps on a link where we have not previously > + * recorded speed from Status register, just return in this case. > */ > if (spd > 1) > mask &= (1 << (spd - 1)) - 1; > else > - mask &= 1; > + return -EINVAL; I get that the current behavior might not be ideal in certain scenarios but the above seems weird, especially given the we have link->sata_spd for cases where we can't access the spd value. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html