Comment 30 for bug 1783906

No, my device doesn't work with 6Gbps. In kernel 4.14 if my drive was offline, function sata_down_spd_limit() cut down link->sata_spd_limit to 1, so it corresponds to 1.5Gbps, and was working. But it wasn't even try to set limit to 3Gbps.

In my device, unfortunately mask and link->sata_spd_limit is set to INT_MAX, so next bitwise operations doesn't make any sense, because mask is far out of range valid values.

Setting link->sata_spd_limit = 0x7 doesn't work (my device is not 6Gbps capable). In patch I cut mask to be not greater than 0x7, not just 0x7. Actually after masking, kernel tries to connect with 3Gbps (mask 0x3) and it succeed.

About comment and hard reset. I get your patch and modified it leaving commit message and comment in code untouched. I don't investigate this topic enough. I have to check how working __sata_set_spd_needed() and sata_link_hardreset() functions.