From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chaitanya Lala Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:34:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4A1C0C1C.8040401@riverbed.com> References: <1243004704.3192.21.camel@achroite> <20090522171850.GA16751@clala-laptop> <1243040677.16597.52.camel@deadeye> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "jgarzik@pobox.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from smtp1.riverbed.com ([206.169.144.12]:18807 "EHLO smtp1.riverbed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbZEZPeK (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 11:34:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1243040677.16597.52.camel@deadeye> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:18 -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..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 */ >> }; >> > [...] > > No, you cannot change the size of this structure either. > Hi, In that case please suggest a way to do this. Thanks, Chaitanya > Ben. > >