Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:18 -0700, Chaitanya Lala wrote:
  

quoted

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..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 */
 };
    

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No, you cannot change the size of this structure either.
  

Hi,

In that case please suggest a way to do this.

Thanks,
Chaitanya

Ben.