From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 08/15] libata: Add ability to prevent PRD from being allocated
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:20:48 -0500
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brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
> For some HBAs, particularly SAS HBAs, there is no reason to
> allocate a PRD buffer, since it is not used. Add a flag
> to prevent its allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>

ACK.  This is nice to have regardless of SAS, and perhaps should be 
bumped up in the patch order.