[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] AHCI: Increase link timeout to 200ms

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Ian Campbell,

In message <1405712321-12334-1-git-send-email-ijc at hellion.org.uk> you wrote:
> In 73545f75b66d "ahci: wait longer for link" I increased the
> timeout to 40ms based on the observed behaviour of a WD disk on a
> Cubietruck. Since then Karsten Merker and myself have both
> observed timeouts with HGST disks (Karsten on Cubietruck, me on
> Cubieboard2). Increasing the timeout to ~175ms fixes this, so go
> to 200ms for a bit of headroom.

Is there not some specification anywhere which defines a maximum time that
is allowed for the link to come up?


>  #define WAIT_MS_SPINUP	20000
>  #define WAIT_MS_DATAIO	5000
>  #define WAIT_MS_FLUSH	5000
> -#define WAIT_MS_LINKUP	40
> +#define WAIT_MS_LINKUP	200

BTW:  All these names are just horrible from a name space point of view :-(


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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