Hello,

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 01:37:58PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

The sata core driver already retries to resume the link because some
controllers ignore writes to the SControl register.

We have a use case with the da850 SATA controller where at PLL0
frequency of 456MHz (needed to properly service the LCD controller)
the chip becomes unstable and the hardreset operation is ignored the
first time 50% of times.

Retrying just the resume operation doesn't work - we need to issue
the phy/wake reset again to make it work.

If ata_phys_link_offline() returns true in sata_link_hardreset(),
retry a couple times before really giving up.

I think it'd be better to implement the driver specific implementation
rather than changing the behavior for everybody.

Thanks.

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tejun