| Version 5.17 - April 4, 2022 |
| * Feature: transceiver module power mode (--set-module) |
| * Feature: transceiver module extended state (--show-module) |
| * Feature: get/set rx buffer length (-g and -G) |
| * Feature: tx copybreak buffer size (--get-tunable and --set-tunable) |
| * Feature: JSON output for features (-k) |
| * Feature: support OSFP transceiver modules (-m) |
| * Fix: add missing free() calls (--get-tunable and --set-tunable) |
| |
| Version 5.16 - January 19, 2022 |
| * Feature: use memory maps for module EEPROM parsing (-m) |
| * Feature: show CMIS diagnostic information (-m) |
| * Fix: fix dumping advertised FEC modes (--show-fec) |
| * Fix: ignore cable test notifications from other devices (--cable-test) |
| * Fix: do not show duplicate options in help text (--help) |
| |
| Version 5.15 - November 9, 2021 |
| * Feature: new extended link substates for bad signal (no arg) |
| * Feature: coalesce cqe mode attributes (-c and -C) |
| * Fix: multiple fixes of EEPROM module data parsing (-m) |
| * Fix: fix condition to display MDI-X info (no arg) |
| |
| Version 5.14 - September 12, 2021 |
| * Feature: do not silently ignore --json if unsupported |
| * Feature: support new message types in pretty print |
| |
| Version 5.13 - July 9, 2021 |
| * Feature: netlink handler for FEC (--show-fec and --set-fec) |
| * Feature: FEC stats support (--show-fec) |
| * Feature: standard based stats support (-S) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for module EEPROM dump (-m) |
| * Feature: page, bank and i2c selection in module dump (-m) |
| |
| Version 5.12 - May 2, 2021 |
| * Feature: support lanes count (no option and -s) |
| * Fix: fix help message for master-slave parameter (-s) |
| * Fix: better error message for master-slave in ioctl code path |
| * Fix: get rid of compiler warnings in "make check" |
| |
| Version 5.10 - Dec 16, 2020 |
| * Feature: infrastructure for JSON output |
| * Feature: separate FLAGS in -h output |
| * Feature: use policy dumps to check flags support |
| * Feature: show pause stats (-a) |
| * Feature: pretty printing of policy dumps |
| * Feature: improve error message when SFP module is missing |
| * Fix: use after free in netlink_run_handler() |
| * Fix: leaked instances of struct nl_socket |
| * Fix: improve compatibility between netlink and ioctl (-s) |
| |
| Version 5.9 - Oct 15, 2020 |
| * Feature: extended link state |
| * Feature: QSFP-DD support |
| * Feature: tunnel information (--show-tunnels) |
| * Feature: Broadcom bnxt support |
| * Fix: improve compatibility between ioctl and netlink output |
| * Fix: cable test TDR amplitude output |
| * Fix: get rid of build warnings |
| * Fix: null pointer dereference running against old kernel (no arg) |
| * Fix: update link mode tables |
| * Fix: fix memory leaks and error handling found by static analysis |
| |
| Version 5.8 - Aug 4, 2020 |
| * Feature: more ethtool netlink message format descriptions |
| * Feature: omit test-features if netlink is enabled |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gfeatures (-k) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for sfeatures (-K) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gprivflags (--show-priv-flags) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for sprivflags (--set-priv-flags) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gring (-g) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for sring (-G) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gchannels (-l) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for schannels (-L) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gcoalesce (-c) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for scoalesce (-C) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for gpause (-a) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for spause (-A) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for geee (--show-eee) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for seee (--set-eee) |
| * Feature: netlink handler for tsinfo (-T) |
| * Feature: master/slave configuration support |
| * Feature: LINKSTATE SQI support |
| * Feature: cable test support |
| * Feature: cable test TDR support |
| * Feature: JSON output for cable test commands |
| * Feature: igc driver support |
| * Feature: support for get/set ethtool_tunable |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 SERDES |
| * Fix: fix build warnings |
| * Fix: fix nest type grouping in parser |
| * Fix: fix msgbuff_append() helper |
| * Fix: fix unwanted switch fall through in family_info_cb() |
| * Fix: fix netlink error message suppression |
| * Fix: fix netlink bitmasks when sent as NOMASK |
| * Fix: use "Not reported" when no FEC modes are provided |
| * Fix: ioctl: do not pass transceiver value back to kernel |
| * Fix: ethtool.spec: Add bash completion script |
| |
| Version 5.7 - Jun 4, 2020 |
| * Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon |
| * Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly |
| * Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features |
| * Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code |
| * Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback |
| * Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack |
| * Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes |
| * Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security |
| |
| Version 5.6 - May 12, 2020 |
| * Feature: add --debug option to control debugging messages |
| * Feature: use named initializers in command line option list |
| * Feature: netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files |
| * Feature: netlink: introduce the netlink interface |
| * Feature: netlink: message buffer and composition helpers |
| * Feature: netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers |
| * Feature: netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket |
| * Feature: netlink: add support for string sets |
| * Feature: netlink: add notification monitor |
| * Feature: netlink: add bitset helpers |
| * Feature: netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option) |
| * Feature: netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings |
| * Feature: netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers |
| * Feature: netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers |
| * Feature: netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s) |
| * Feature: netlink: support tests with netlink enabled |
| * Feature: netlink: add handler for permaddr (-P) |
| * Feature: netlink: support for pretty printing netlink messages |
| * Feature: netlink: message format description for ethtool netlink |
| * Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for genetlink control |
| * Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for rtnetlink |
| * Feature: netlink: use pretty printing for ethtool netlink messages |
| |
| Version 5.4 - January 10, 2020 |
| |
| * Feature: ethtool: implement support for Energy Detect Power Down |
| * Fix: fix arithmetic on pointer to void is a GNU extension warning |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warnings in do_version() and show_usage() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in find_option() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dump_eeprom() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in altera_tse_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in sfc_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in print_simple_table() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in natsemi_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in netsemi_dump_eeprom() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbe_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in realtek_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in lan78xx_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in {skge, sky2}_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dsa_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vmxnet3_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in st_{mac100, gmac}_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbevf_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_8xx_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in tg3_dump_{eeprom, regs}() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vioc_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e100_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in de2104[01]_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in igb_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in smsc911x_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in at76c50x_usb_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in amd8111e_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in et131x_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ibm_emac_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgb_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fjes_dump_regs() |
| * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_get_mac_type() |
| * Fix: ethtool: correctly interpret bitrate of 255 |
| * Fix: ethtool: mark 10G Base-ER as SFF-8472 revision 10.4 onwards |
| * Fix: ethtool: add 0x16 and 0x1c extended compliance codes |
| |
| Version 5.3 - September 23, 2019 |
| * Feature: igb: dump RR2DCDELAY register |
| * Feature: dump nested registers |
| |
| Version 5.2 - July 25, 2019 |
| * Feature: Add 100BaseT1 and 1000BaseT1 link modes |
| * Feature: Use standard file location macros in ethtool.spec |
| |
| Version 5.1 - May 17, 2019 |
| * Feature: Add support for 200Gbps (50Gbps per lane) link mode |
| * Feature: simplify handling of PHY tunable downshift |
| * Feature: add support for PHY tunable Fast Link Down |
| * Feature: add PHY Fast Link Down tunable to man page |
| * Feature: Add a 'start N' option when specifying the Rx flow hash indirection table. |
| * Feature: Add bash-completion script |
| * Feature: add 10000baseR_FEC link mode name |
| * Fix: qsfp: fix special value comparison |
| * Feature: move option parsing related code into function |
| * Feature: move cmdline_coalesce out of do_scoalesce |
| * Feature: introduce new ioctl for per-queue settings |
| * Feature: support per-queue sub command --show-coalesce |
| * Feature: support per-queue sub command --coalesce |
| * Fix: fix up dump_coalesce output to match actual option names |
| * Feature: fec: add pretty dump |
| |
| Version 5.0 - March 13, 2019 |
| * Feature: don't report UFO on kernels v4.14 and above |
| * Fix: zero initialize coalesce struct |
| * Feature: dsa: add pretty dump |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6185 |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6161 |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6390 |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for others |
| |
| Version 4.19 - November 2, 2018 |
| * Feature: support combinations of FEC modes |
| * Feature: better syntax for combinations of FEC modes |
| * Fix: Fix uninitialized variable use at qsfp dump |
| |
| Version 4.18 - August 24, 2018 |
| * Feature: Add support for WAKE_FILTER (WoL using filters) |
| * Feature: Add support for action value -2 (wake-up filter) |
| * Fix: document WoL filters option also in help message |
| * Feature: ixgbe dump strings for security registers |
| |
| Version 4.17 - June 15, 2018 |
| |
| * Fix: In ethtool.8, remove superfluous and incorrect \c. |
| * Fix: fix uninitialized return value |
| * Fix: fix RING_VF assignment |
| * Fix: remove unused global variable |
| * Fix: several fixes in do_gregs() |
| * Fix: correctly free hkey when get_stringset() fails |
| * Fix: remove unreachable code |
| * Fix: fix stack clash in do_get_phy_tunable and do_set_phy_tunable |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for MICROCHIP LAN78xx |
| |
| Version 4.16 - April 13, 2018 |
| |
| * Feature: add support for extra RSS contexts and RSS steering filters |
| * Feature: Document RSS context control and RSS filters |
| * Fix: don't fall back to grxfhindir when context was specified |
| * Fix: correct display of VF when showing vf/queue filters |
| * Fix: show VF and queue in the help for -N |
| * Fix: correct VF index values for the ring_cookie parameter |
| * Feature: Add SFF 8636 date code parsing support |
| |
| Version 4.15 - February 1, 2018 |
| |
| * Feature: Support for FEC encoding control |
| * Fix: Fix coding style warnings and errors reported by checkpatch |
| * Feature: Add extended compliance codes parsing to sfp modules |
| * Fix: Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support" |
| * Feature: Add ETHTOOL_RESET support via --reset command |
| * Fix: fix MFLCN register dump for 82599 and newer |
| |
| Version 4.13 - October 27, 2017 |
| |
| * Fix: Do not return error code if no changes were attempted. |
| * Fix: Fix formatting of advertise bitmask |
| * Feature: Document 56000 advertise link modes |
| * Fix: fix the rx vs tx mixup in set channel message |
| * Feature: add support for HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NTP_ALL |
| * Feature: Add DMA Coalescing support |
| * Feature: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload error prints |
| * Feature: stmmac: Add macros for number of registers |
| * Feature: stmmac: Add DMA HW Feature Register |
| |
| Version 4.11 - June 2, 2017 |
| |
| * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash function |
| * Feature: support queue and VF fields for rxclass filters |
| * Feature: Add support for 2500baseT/5000baseT link modes |
| * Fix: Fix SFF 8079 cable technology bit parsing |
| * Fix: sync help output for -x/-X with man page |
| |
| Version 4.10 - March 24, 2017 |
| |
| * Fix: Fix the "advertise" parameter logic. |
| * Feature: Implement ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE and PHY downshift |
| * Feature: add register dump support for fjes driver (-d option) |
| |
| Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016 |
| |
| * Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support |
| * Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G |
| * Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode |
| * Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125 |
| |
| Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016 |
| |
| * Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option) |
| * Fix: Correct some reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs |
| (-d option) |
| * Feature: Add IPv6 support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options) |
| * Feature: Add support for ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option |
| and -s option) |
| * Feature: Use netlink socket when AF_INET not available |
| |
| Version 4.5 - March 14, 2016 |
| |
| * Tests: Fix missing function declarations when building tests |
| * Tests: Fix return type of test_free() prorotype |
| * Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics option) |
| * Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page |
| * Feature: Support setting default Rx flow indirection table |
| (-X option) |
| * Fix: Use 'sane' kernel type definitions on 64-bit architectures |
| * Fix: Don't ignore fread() return value (-d option) |
| * Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file (-d option) |
| * Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option) |
| * Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c |
| * Tests: Fix use of uninitialised variable in test_realloc() |
| * Tests: Fix compiler warning in test-features.c |
| |
| Version 4.2 - October 9, 2015 |
| |
| * Feature: Support soldered-on modules in module EEPROM dump (-m option) |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for VMware vmxnet3 (-d option) |
| * Feature: Update register dump support for IBM EMAC (-d option) |
| (requires Linux 4.3 or a future stable update to 4.1 or 4.2) |
| * Doc: Fix typo in man page |
| |
| Version 4.0 - May 31, 2015 |
| |
| * Fix: Formatting of RX flow hash indirection table when size not |
| divisible by 8 (-x option) |
| * Fix: Add missing Advertised speeds (no option and -s option) |
| * Feature: Add support to get expansion ROM version (-i option) |
| * Feature: Include SFP serial number and date in EEPROM dump |
| (-m option) |
| |
| Version 3.18 - December 14, 2014 |
| |
| * Fix: Lookup of SFP Tx bias in SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) |
| * Fix: Build with musl by using more common typedefs |
| |
| Version 3.16 - September 22, 2014 |
| |
| * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash key (-x/-X options) |
| |
| Version 3.15 - July 20, 2014 |
| |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for Altera Triple Speed Ethernet |
| (-d option) |
| |
| Version 3.14 - April 21, 2014 |
| |
| * Fix: Report Backplane as supported port (no option) |
| * Feature: Allow building a smaller executable without pretty- |
| printing of register/EEPROM dumps (./configure --disable-pretty-dump) |
| * Fix: Typo in channel parameter format in an error message (-L option) |
| |
| Version 3.13 - January 27, 2014 |
| |
| * Doc: Update GPL text to include current address of the FSF |
| * Fix: Spelling fixes |
| * Doc: Fix advertising flag values in manual page for 20G link modes, |
| and add missing 1G, 10G and 40G link modes |
| |
| Version 3.12.1 - November 8, 2013 |
| |
| * Fix: Memory corruption when applying external calibration to |
| SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) |
| * Feature: Add Intel 82599 and x540 DCB registers to dump |
| (-d option) |
| |
| Version 3.12 - November 7, 2013 |
| |
| * Fix: Remove alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux |
| < 2.6.37 (-k/-K options) |
| * Fix: Hide state of VLAN tag offload and LRO if the kernel is too old |
| for us to reliably detect them (-k option) |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for Solarflare SFC9100 family |
| (-d option) |
| |
| Version 3.11 - September 12, 2013 |
| |
| * Feature: Update Realtek chip list for register dump to match |
| r8169 driver in Linux 3.11 (-d option) |
| * Feature: Add ixgbevf support for register dump (-d option) |
| * Feature: Filter ixgbe register dump according to the specific chip |
| (-d option) |
| |
| Version 3.10 - July 1, 2013 |
| |
| * Feature: Beautify private flags print (--show-priv-flags option) |
| |
| Version 3.9 - April 30, 2013 |
| |
| * Feature: Display support for 10000BASE-KR link mode (no options) |
| * Feature: Add support for new versions of ixgbe register dump |
| (-d dump) |
| |
| Version 3.8 - February 28, 2013 |
| |
| * Feature: Allow setting destination MAC address in L3/L4 flow spec |
| rules (-N/-U option) |
| * Fix: Show full 64 bits of user-data (-n/-u option) |
| * Fix: Add version check for et131x regs (-d option) |
| * Doc: Improve description of -f, -t, -s, -N/-U, -W options in man page |
| * Fix: Restore 20000baseKR2 cap display (no options) |
| |
| Version 3.7 - December 13, 2012 |
| |
| * Fix: Gracefully handle failure of register pretty-printer (-d option) |
| * Feature: Add support for et131x registers (-d option) |
| * Feature: Basic optical diagnostics for SFF-8472 modules (-m option) |
| |
| Version 3.6 - October 5, 2012 |
| |
| * Feature: Allow setting MDI-X state (-s option) |
| * Fix: Preserve pause advertising bits when setting speed and |
| duplex with autoneg on (-s option) |
| * Fix: Don't call ioctl to set EEE parameters if they are the same |
| as the current parameters (--set-eee option) |
| |
| Version 3.5 - August 2, 2012 |
| |
| * Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes |
| * Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration |
| (--show-eee and --set-eee options) |
| * Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings |
| * Feature: Display support for 40G link modes |
| * Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL |
| * Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM |
| |
| Version 3.4.2 - July 16, 2012 |
| |
| * Fix: Fix regression in RX NFC rule insertion for drivers that do |
| not select rule locations (-N/-U option) |
| * Fix: Remove bogus error message when changing offload settings |
| on Linux < 2.6.39 (-K option) |
| * Fix: Use alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux |
| < 2.6.37 (-k option) |
| |
| Version 3.4.1 - June 13, 2012 |
| |
| * Fix: Work around failure of ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for unprivileged |
| users (-k option) |
| * Fix: Report any unexpected error code from ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO |
| (-k and -K options) |
| * Doc: Fix the date of the man page to match the last update |
| |
| Version 3.4 - June 8, 2012 |
| |
| * Cleanup: Merge RX NFC options |
| * Doc: Improve description of RX NFC options |
| * Doc: Add ntuple to the -K option in the man page |
| * Feature: Show time stamping capabilities (-T option) |
| * Feature: Dump plug-in module EEPROM (-m option) |
| * Feature: Show and change all generic net device features |
| (-k and -K options) |
| |
| Version 3.2 - January 12, 2012 |
| |
| * Feature: Add support for querying and setting private flags |
| (--show-priv-flags, --set-priv-flags options) |
| * Feature: Omit zero values in Solarflare register tables (-d option) |
| * Feature: Allow driver to select RX NFC rule location (-U option) |
| * Fix: Correct register dump offsets for Intel 82575 chipsets |
| (-d option) |
| |
| Version 3.1 - November 16, 2011 |
| |
| * Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option) |
| * Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option) |
| * Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option) |
| * Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of |
| channels/queues (-l and -L options) |
| * Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option) |
| * Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname' |
| * Doc: Fix various layout problems |
| * Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing |
| * Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in |
| particular, fail if the device name is missing |
| |
| Version 3.0 - August 4, 2011 |
| |
| * Feature: Report supported pause frame modes |
| * Feature: Support firmware dump (-w and -W options) |
| * Feature: Report advertised and supported 20G link modes |
| * Feature: Add an 'l4data' option for ip4 filters (-U option) |
| * Fix: Correct swapped h_source and h_dest fields for ether filters |
| (-U option) |
| * Fix: Set ip_ver field correctly for ip4 filters (-U option) |
| * Fix: Correct parameter validation for -e and -E options; in |
| particular, treat the 'magic' value as unsigned |
| |
| Version 2.6.39 - June 1, 2011 |
| |
| * Feature: Report some driver features (-i option) |
| * Doc: Remove misleading 'Auto' advertising mask from manual page |
| * Doc: Improve table formatting on manual page, using tbl |
| * Doc: Remove initial blank page in printed manual page |
| * Doc: Fix line-wrapping of options |
| * Feature: Add support for ESP as a separate protocol from AH |
| (-n, -N, -u and -U options) |
| * Cleanup: Remove support for showing RX n-tuple settings |
| (-u option), which was never implemented correctly in the kernel |
| * Feature: Add support for RX network flow classifier (NFC) |
| (-u and -U options) |
| * Feature: Add support for e1000 M88 PHY registers (-d option) |
| * Cleanup: Change bug-address to netdev |
| |
| Version 2.6.38 - March 15, 2011 |
| |
| * Doc: Fix spelling and spacing in online help |
| * Doc: Update date, version and web site reference in manual page |
| * Doc: Fix spelling, capitalisation, consistency and style in |
| manual page |
| * Doc: Generalise some references to network devices rather than |
| Ethernet devices |
| * Fix: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on |
| * Fix: Report an error (rather than full usage information) if |
| given an unrecognised option |
| * Feature: Add --version option |
| |
| Version 2.6.37 - January 5, 2011 |
| |
| * Fix: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from |
| Linux 2.6.9 or earlier |
| |
| Version 2.6.36 - November 16, 2010 |
| |
| * Fix: RX n-tuple masks and documentation |
| * Feature: Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and 'clear' action |
| * Feature: stmmac register dump support |
| * Feature: get permanent address (-P) option |
| * Feature: VLAN acceleration control |
| |
| Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010 |
| |
| * Feature: sfc register dump support |
| * Feature: improve cmd line parsing of ints, IPv4 addresses |
| * Feature: support ethtool named flags, messaging types |
| * Feature: minor man page fixes |
| * Feature: control RX flow hash indirection |
| |
| Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010 |
| |
| * Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming |
| * Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35) |
| * Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips |
| |
| Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010 |
| |
| This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based |
| on the latest upstream kernel interface supported. |
| |
| * Fix: several man page corrections |
| * Feature: rx flow hash configuration |
| * Feature: report 10000baseT support, where available |
| * Feature: report MDI-X status, pause auto-neg, link partner adverts |
| * Feature: support additional port types |
| * Feature: support arbitrary speeds, faster than 65535 Mb |
| * Feature: large and generic receive offload (LRO, GRO) support |
| * Feature: option to flash firmware image from specified file |
| * Feature: support for block writing of EEPROMs |
| * Feature: marvell register dump update |
| * Feature: at76c50x-usb, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, r8169 register dump support |
| * Cleanup: remove support for RX hashing by port (was removed in |
| kernel by 59089d8d162ddcb5c434672e915331964d38a754) |
| * Doc: Explicitly ship GPLv2 license, rather than relying |
| on autotools to supply it for us (autotools started auto-installing |
| GPLv3 recently) |
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| Version 6 - July 26, 2007 |
| |
| * Fix/security: Fix handling of statistics where the label |
| is exactly 32 bytes (ETH_GSTRING_LEN). |
| * Feature: Add ability to change the advertised speed/duplex |
| to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one. |
| * Feature: ixgb register dump support |
| * Feature: sky2 register dump support |
| * Feature: Fabric7 VIOC register dump support |
| * Feature: Decode raw register dump stored in a file |
| * Feature: Add ability to force hex register dump, if desired |
| * Feature: update e1000 register dump |
| * Feature: Additional 10Gbps support |
| * Feature: Add 2.5G support |
| * Feature: Update r8169 register dump |
| * Feature: SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x register dump support |
| * Cleanup: Update internal ethtool.h copy to match upstream |
| kernel 2.6.23-rc1 version of ethtool.h. |
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| Version 5 - September 1, 2006 |
| |
| * Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow |
| * Feature: GSO support |
| * Feature: skge register dump |
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| Version 4 - July 18, 2006 |
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| * Feature: UFO support |
| * Feature: support long options |
| * Features: e1000, pcnet32, tg3 updates |
| * Feature: added PPC4xx EMAC support |
| * Feature: Use hexdump instead of single values for register dump |
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| Version 3 - January 27, 2005 |
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| * Feature: r8159 register dump support |
| * Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet |
| * Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD |
| * Other minor bug fixes. |
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| Version 2 - August 17, 2004 |
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| * Feature: ethtool register dump raw mode |
| * Feature: return results of self-test back to OS via exit(2) |
| * Feature: add verbose register dump for pcnet32, fec_8xx |
| * Maintenance: update to more recent autoconf |
| * Maintenance: minor updates to e1000-specific module |
| * Bug fix: Remove silly restriction on ethernet interface naming |
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| Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003 |
| |
| * Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps |
| * Feature: Support TSO enable/disable |
| * Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet |
| * Feature: Support writing EEPROM data |
| * Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump |
| * Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips. |
| * Feature: More supported e1000 devices. |
| * Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising |
| * Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better. |
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| Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002 |
| |
| * Feature: Support e100 register dumps |
| * Feature: Support tg3 eeprom dumps |
| * Feature: Support partial eeprom dumps (with non-zero offsets) |
| * Feature: Support decimal/octal/hex numbers transparently, |
| at the user's discretion. |
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| Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002 |
| |
| * Feature: Support e1000 register dumps |
| * Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps |
| * Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE) |
| * Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM) |
| * Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM) |
| * Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID) |
| * Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST) |
| * Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration |
| (ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG) |
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| Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002 |
| |
| * Fix: support usb network interfaces |
| * Fix: include redhat spec file in autoconf build system |
| * Fix: minor fixes to natsemi register dump |
| * Feature: report advertised as well as supported media, |
| when printing device settings. |
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| Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001 |
| |
| * Support builds on configurations missing SIOCETHTOOL constant. |
| * Import ethtool.h from kernel 2.4.15-pre6. |
| * Support retrieval/setting of per-driver debug levels |
| (ETHTOOL G/SMSGLVL) |
| * Support pretty-printing register dumps on natsemi, de2104x |
| (ETHTOOL GREGS) |
| * Support restarting autonegotiation (ETHTOOL NWAY_RST) |
| * Support obtaining link status (ETHTOOL GLINK) |
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| Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001 |
| |
| * Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl). |
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| Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001 |
| |
| * Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains |
| information from the ethernet driver associated |
| with the specified interface. |
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