Re: libata-core.c: ata_fill_sg() ... sanity check on arithmentic ?

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> So then ap->prd[idx].flags_len gets set to (0x10000 & 0xFFFF) = 0 !
> So this sg element ends up with a zero length, even though the
> transfer size should be 64k.
> 
> Is this correct behaviour, if not, should it be corrected ?

The specification says that 0x0000 means 64K. A couple of controllers do
get this wrong and we did recently add a second sg list builder for those.

Perhaps a comment or two is in order ?
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