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

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 01:22 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Ian Campbell,
> 
> In message <1405712321-12334-1-git-send-email-ijc@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?

I did have a look way back when I originally wrote the patch and if it
exists I can't find it.

> >  #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 :-(

I suppose their saving grace is at least they are only in a .c file.

Ian.