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authorChaitanya Lala <clala@riverbed.com>2009-06-08 14:28:54 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-09 05:25:36 -0700
commit18760f1e74e8dfe8f30d4891e66163d1e6feb893 (patch)
tree052017e6553c6dfec92734030be1d64bec930945 /drivers/net/e1000e
parentedfea6e641edee07bc69c70dd978088fc1cecd74 (diff)
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/e1000e')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c9
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;
}