From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Brandeburg Subject: [RFC ETHTOOL PATCH 0/2] implement MDI-X set Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:52:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20120725174351.9839.132.stgit@jbrandeb-snb.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:45999 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445Ab2GYUwB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:52:01 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Some users reported issues connecting to some switches, where they were unable to get link (see kernel.org bugzilla 11998) This patch series improves ethtool to support controlling the MDI/MDI-X state of a link. It also adds support to the "get settings" function to show if the MDI state was forced or not. This is currently RFC because internal testing was not completed but I am sending the patch to make sure the design is good. Special thanks to Ben Hutchings for his input to this series. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg --- Jesse Brandeburg (2): ethtool: allow setting MDI-X state ethtool.h: implement new MDI-X set defines ethtool-copy.h | 17 +++++++++++------ ethtool.8.in | 8 ++++++++ ethtool.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- Jesse Brandeburg