Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2009-05-22

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

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2009-05-22 15:03:35

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 07:54 -0700, Chaitanya Lala wrote:
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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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <redacted>
---
 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.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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