Sorry past few days have been struggling to buy some time to look at these. Every time I go into the store and ask for more time they try to give me phone cards. Its an improvement to restore the "capable" link speed & in this case I think we're also enabling a user to have over-ridden it if they were to write the register by hand. Its nice to give every potentially "new" device a chance at achieving its full potential. A little outside of the scope of this patch, but I was wondering if the logline should be a warn level logline? I don't honestly know what a "normal" level is for the pci system. Also, instead of saying "retraining ... at 2.5GT/s\n", would it be more clear if it said "forcing downstream link to 2.5GT/s". In my mind its more clear that an action has been taken which produces a potentially less than unexpected speed. I can test this patch on a couple of systems, but I need a week or so to get it done... Reviewed-by: Matthew Carlis <mattc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>