mii-tool in displays advertising and link partner fields backwards

I have a gigabit ethernet card in my box, but only fast ethernet switch. When I use mii-tool, it report that it my card only advertises up to a 100baseTx link, but that my switch advertises up to a 1000baseT link. These are backwards. ethtool gets it right.

Since newer versions (with newer releases) only have a single change (an updated header list), I assume those versions suffer the same bug.

See the listing below of running mii-tool vs ethtool on the same interface, and note that advertised and link partner fields are reversed in the two tools:

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ dpkg -S `which mii-tool`
net-tools: /sbin/mii-tool

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ dpkg -p net-tools
Package: net-tools
Priority: important
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1044
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.60-23ubuntu2
Replaces: ja-trans (<= 0.8-2), netbase (<< 4.00)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Conflicts: ja-trans (<= 0.8-2)
Size: 259342
Description: The NET-3 networking toolkit
 This package includes the important tools for controlling the network
 subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat,
 rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities
 relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach,
 mii-tool) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr).
 .
 In the upstream package 'hostname' and friends are included. Those are
 not installed by this package, since there is a special "hostname*.deb".
Original-Maintainer: net-tools Team <email address hidden>

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ apt-cache policy net-tools
net-tools:
  Installed: 1.60-23ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.60-23ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.60-23ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ dpkg -S `which ethtool`
ethtool: /usr/sbin/ethtool

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ dpkg -p ethtool
Package: ethtool
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6+20091202-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Conflicts: sparc-utils (<< 1.9-1)
Size: 74094
Description: display or change Ethernet device settings
 ethtool can be used to query and change settings such as speed, auto-
 negotiation and checksum offload on many network devices, especially
 Ethernet devices.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
Original-Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ apt-cache policy ethtool
ethtool:
  Installed: 6+20091202-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6+20091202-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6+20091202-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6+20091202-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ sudo mii-tool -v eth1
eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
  product info: vendor 00:07:32, model 17 rev 3
  basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
  basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
  capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
  link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control

jwcacces@__myhostname__:~$ sudo ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
        Link detected: yes