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

Ben Hutchings
2009-05-22T15:03:35Z

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 07:54 -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..37bbeaf 100644
> --- a/ethtool-copy.h
> +++ b/ethtool-copy.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct ethtool_cmd {
> __u8 phy_address;
> __u8 transceiver; /* Which transceiver to use */
> __u8 autoneg; /* Enable or disable autonegotiation */
> + __u8 is_mdix;
[...]

I have already filled this hole in the structure. See Dave's
net-next-2.6 repository and my previously submitted changes to ethtool
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/127025>.

Ben.

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