Re: [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status

Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-26T15:34:10Z

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:18 -0700, Chaitanya Lala wrote:
>
>> The MDI-X status is a useful tool for diagnosing network
>> connectivity issues. We expose MDI-X status as a tri-state value
>> status which drivers can optionally implement.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
>> ---
>> ethtool-copy.h | 6 ++++++
>> ethtool.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ethtool-copy.h b/ethtool-copy.h
>> index 3ca4e2c..d3e1524 100644
>> --- a/ethtool-copy.h
>> +++ b/ethtool-copy.h
>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct ethtool_cmd {
>> __u16 speed_hi;
>> __u16 reserved2;
>> __u32 reserved[3];
>> + __u8 is_mdix; /* Tri-state value to expose MDI-X */
>> };
>>
> [...]
>
> No, you cannot change the size of this structure either.
>
Hi,

In that case please suggest a way to do this.

Thanks,
Chaitanya
> Ben.
>
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