From 388f08ecdc199f6fae2e94f792bffbabcba294f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Serge Semin Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 22:36:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] dt-bindings: ata: sata: Extend number of SATA ports The denoted in the description upper limit only concerns the Port Multipliers, but not the actual SATA ports. It's an external device attached to a SATA port in order to access more than one SATA-drive. So when it's attached to a SATA port it just extends the port capability while the number of actual SATA ports stays the same. For instance on AHCI controllers the number of actual ports is determined by the CAP.NP field and the PI (Ports Implemented) register. AFAICS in general the maximum number of SATA ports depends on the particular controller implementation. Generic AHCI controller can't have more than 32 ports (since CAP.NP is of 5 bits wide and PI register is 32-bits size), while DWC AHCI SATA controller can't be configured with more than 8 ports activated. So let's discard the SATA ports reg-property restrictions and just make sure that it consists of a single reg-item. Signed-off-by: Serge Semin Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata-common.yaml | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata-common.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata-common.yaml index 5a31a90..58c9342 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata-common.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata-common.yaml @@ -49,10 +49,9 @@ $defs: properties: reg: minimum: 0 - maximum: 14 description: - The ID number of the drive port SATA can potentially use a port - multiplier making it possible to connect up to 15 disks to a single - SATA port. + The ID number of the SATA port. Aside with being directly used, + each port can have a Port Multiplier attached thus allowing to + access more than one drive by means of a single SATA port. ... -- 2.7.4