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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) 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. Version 5 - September 1, 2006 * Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow * Feature: GSO support * Feature: skge register dump Version 4 - July 18, 2006 * 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 Version 3 - January 27, 2005 * Feature: r8159 register dump support * Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet * Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD * Other minor bug fixes. Version 2 - August 17, 2004 * 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 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. 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. 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) 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. 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) Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001 * Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl). 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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