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From: Chaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed•com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: "jesse.brandeburg@intel•com" <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/1] e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via	ethtool change
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:24:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A16C3A9.3070402@riverbed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243004704.3192.21.camel@achroite>

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 07:55 -0700, Chaitanya Lala wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> [...] 
>   
>> diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h
>> index 380b042..0533d70 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct ethtool_cmd {
>>  	__u8	phy_address;
>>  	__u8	transceiver;	/* Which transceiver to use */
>>  	__u8	autoneg;	/* Enable or disable autonegotiation */
>> +	__u8	is_mdix;	/* MDI-X status tri-state value */
>>  	__u8	mdio_support;
>>     
> [...]
>
> There's no gap here, so this would move all the following fields and
> break all older ethtool clients.
>
> Ben.
>
>   
Then should I move it to the bottom ?

Chaitanya


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-22 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F169D4F5E1F1974DBFAFABF47F60C10A33527C9D@orsmsx507.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-05-22 14:54 ` [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-22 15:02   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-22 15:03   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-22 14:55 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/1] e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via ethtool change Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-22 15:05   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-22 15:24     ` Chaitanya Lala [this message]
2009-05-22 17:18     ` [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-23  1:04       ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-26 15:34         ` Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-26 16:02           ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-27 23:13             ` Chaitanya Lala
2009-05-27 23:15             ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/1] e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via ethtool change Chaitanya Lala
2009-06-02 23:02               ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-06-03 17:34               ` Ben Hutchings
2009-06-03 17:45                 ` Chaitanya Lala
2009-06-03 21:04                   ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-06-03 21:19                     ` Chaitanya Lala
2009-06-03 21:31                       ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-06-03 21:41                         ` Chaitanya Lala
2009-06-10 19:11             ` Re-submit [PATCH 1/1] ethtool: Expose MDI-X status Chaitanya Lala
2009-06-10 19:22               ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-22 17:20     ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/1] e1000e: Expose MDI-X status via ethtool change Chaitanya Lala

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