From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:02:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20090522080224.73990f8a@nehalam> References: <20090522145426.GA8470@clala-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Chaitanya Lala Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:52446 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753051AbZEVPC3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 11:02:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090522145426.GA8470@clala-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:54:26 -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 > Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones > --- > 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; > __u32 maxtxpkt; /* Tx pkts before generating tx int */ > __u32 maxrxpkt; /* Rx pkts before generating rx int */ > __u16 speed_hi; > Is this an ABI change (or are you just reusing a pad hole)? --