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| author | Chaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed.com> | 2009-06-08 14:28:54 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-09 05:25:36 -0700 |
| commit | 18760f1e74e8dfe8f30d4891e66163d1e6feb893 (patch) | |
| tree | 052017e6553c6dfec92734030be1d64bec930945 /drivers/net | |
| parent | edfea6e641edee07bc69c70dd978088fc1cecd74 (diff) | |
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e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via ethtool change
Ethtool is a standard way of getting information about
ethernet interfaces. We enhance ethtool kernel interface
& e1000e to make the MDI-X status readable via ethtool in
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c index 3d643561752..1bf4d2a5d34 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c @@ -167,6 +167,15 @@ static int e1000_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev, ecmd->autoneg = ((hw->phy.media_type == e1000_media_type_fiber) || hw->mac.autoneg) ? AUTONEG_ENABLE : AUTONEG_DISABLE; + + /* MDI-X => 2; MDI =>1; Invalid =>0 */ + if ((hw->phy.media_type == e1000_media_type_copper) && + !hw->mac.get_link_status) + ecmd->eth_tp_mdix = hw->phy.is_mdix ? ETH_TP_MDI_X : + ETH_TP_MDI; + else + ecmd->eth_tp_mdix = ETH_TP_MDI_INVALID; + return 0; } |