From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sil24: add constants
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:37:29 -0500
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> +	SGE_DRD			= (1 << 29), /* discard data read (/dev/null)
> +						data address ignored */


BTW, I'm wondering if sil24 can implement ATAPI padding using this.

I'm willing to bet some other hardware will allow us to simply append a 
static S/G descriptor, pointing to zeroed memory, whose length is <4 bytes.

In both cases, we could avoid all the nasty pad handling code.

	Jeff