1Version 6.5 - September 12, 2023 2 * Feature: register dump for hns3 driver (-d) 3 * Fix: fix fallback to ioctl for sset (-s) 4 * Fix: fix empty slot search in rmgr (-N) 5 6Version 6.4 - July 1, 2023 7 * Feature: get/set Tx push buffer length (-G) 8 * Feature: sff-8636 and cmis: report LOL / LOS / Tx Fault (-m) 9 * Fix: fix duplex setting parser (-s) 10 * Misc: check and require C11 language standard 11 * Misc: clean up obsolete pre-build checks 12 13Version 6.3 - May 8, 2023 14 * Feature: PLCA support (--[gs]et-plca-cfg, --get-plca-status) 15 * Feature: MAC Merge layer support (--show-mm, --set-mm) 16 * Feature: pass source of statistics for port stats 17 * Feature: get/set rx push in ringparams (-g and -G) 18 * Feature: coalesce tx aggregation parameters (-c and -C) 19 * Feature: PSE and PD devices (--show-pse, --set-pse) 20 * Fix: minor fixes of help text (--help) 21 * Fix: fix build on systems with older system headers 22 * Fix: fix netlink support when PLCA is not present (no option) 23 * Fix: fixes for issues found with gcc13 -fanalyzer 24 * Fix: fix return code in rxclass_rule_ins (-N) 25 * Fix: more robust argc/argv handling 26 27Version 6.2 - February 21, 2023 28 * Feature: link down event statistics (no option) 29 * Feature: JSON output for coalesce (-c) 30 * Feature: new link modes (no option) 31 * Feature: JSON output for ring (-g) 32 * Feature: netlink handler for RSS get (-x) 33 * Fix: fix boolean value output in JSON output 34 * Fix: fix build errors and warnings 35 36Version 6.1 - December 19, 2022 37 * Feature: update link mode tables 38 * Feature: register dump for NXP ENETC driver (-d) 39 * Feature: report TCP header-data split (-g) 40 * Feature: support new message types in pretty print 41 * Fix: fix compiler warnings 42 * Fix: man page syntax fixes 43 44Version 6.0 - October 10, 2022 45 * Fix: advertisement modes autoselection by lanes (-s) 46 47Version 5.19 - August 22, 2022 48 * Feature: get/set tx push (-g and -G) 49 * Feature: register dump support for TI CPSW (-d) 50 * Feature: register dump support for lan743x chipset (-d) 51 * Fix: fix missing sff-8472 output in netlink path (-m) 52 * Fix: fix EEPROM byte write (-E) 53 54Version 5.18 - June 14, 2022 55 * Feature: get/set cqe size (-g and -G) 56 * Fix: fix typo in man page 57 * Fix: fix help text alignment 58 * Fix: improve attribute label (--show-fec) 59 60Version 5.17 - April 4, 2022 61 * Feature: transceiver module power mode (--set-module) 62 * Feature: transceiver module extended state (--show-module) 63 * Feature: get/set rx buffer length (-g and -G) 64 * Feature: tx copybreak buffer size (--get-tunable and --set-tunable) 65 * Feature: JSON output for features (-k) 66 * Feature: support OSFP transceiver modules (-m) 67 * Fix: add missing free() calls (--get-tunable and --set-tunable) 68 69Version 5.16 - January 19, 2022 70 * Feature: use memory maps for module EEPROM parsing (-m) 71 * Feature: show CMIS diagnostic information (-m) 72 * Fix: fix dumping advertised FEC modes (--show-fec) 73 * Fix: ignore cable test notifications from other devices (--cable-test) 74 * Fix: do not show duplicate options in help text (--help) 75 76Version 5.15 - November 9, 2021 77 * Feature: new extended link substates for bad signal (no arg) 78 * Feature: coalesce cqe mode attributes (-c and -C) 79 * Fix: multiple fixes of EEPROM module data parsing (-m) 80 * Fix: fix condition to display MDI-X info (no arg) 81 82Version 5.14 - September 12, 2021 83 * Feature: do not silently ignore --json if unsupported 84 * Feature: support new message types in pretty print 85 86Version 5.13 - July 9, 2021 87 * Feature: netlink handler for FEC (--show-fec and --set-fec) 88 * Feature: FEC stats support (--show-fec) 89 * Feature: standard based stats support (-S) 90 * Feature: netlink handler for module EEPROM dump (-m) 91 * Feature: page, bank and i2c selection in module dump (-m) 92 93Version 5.12 - May 2, 2021 94 * Feature: support lanes count (no option and -s) 95 * Fix: fix help message for master-slave parameter (-s) 96 * Fix: better error message for master-slave in ioctl code path 97 * Fix: get rid of compiler warnings in "make check" 98 99Version 5.10 - Dec 16, 2020 100 * Feature: infrastructure for JSON output 101 * Feature: separate FLAGS in -h output 102 * Feature: use policy dumps to check flags support 103 * Feature: show pause stats (-a) 104 * Feature: pretty printing of policy dumps 105 * Feature: improve error message when SFP module is missing 106 * Fix: use after free in netlink_run_handler() 107 * Fix: leaked instances of struct nl_socket 108 * Fix: improve compatibility between netlink and ioctl (-s) 109 110Version 5.9 - Oct 15, 2020 111 * Feature: extended link state 112 * Feature: QSFP-DD support 113 * Feature: tunnel information (--show-tunnels) 114 * Feature: Broadcom bnxt support 115 * Fix: improve compatibility between ioctl and netlink output 116 * Fix: cable test TDR amplitude output 117 * Fix: get rid of build warnings 118 * Fix: null pointer dereference running against old kernel (no arg) 119 * Fix: update link mode tables 120 * Fix: fix memory leaks and error handling found by static analysis 121 122Version 5.8 - Aug 4, 2020 123 * Feature: more ethtool netlink message format descriptions 124 * Feature: omit test-features if netlink is enabled 125 * Feature: netlink handler for gfeatures (-k) 126 * Feature: netlink handler for sfeatures (-K) 127 * Feature: netlink handler for gprivflags (--show-priv-flags) 128 * Feature: netlink handler for sprivflags (--set-priv-flags) 129 * Feature: netlink handler for gring (-g) 130 * Feature: netlink handler for sring (-G) 131 * Feature: netlink handler for gchannels (-l) 132 * Feature: netlink handler for schannels (-L) 133 * Feature: netlink handler for gcoalesce (-c) 134 * Feature: netlink handler for scoalesce (-C) 135 * Feature: netlink handler for gpause (-a) 136 * Feature: netlink handler for spause (-A) 137 * Feature: netlink handler for geee (--show-eee) 138 * Feature: netlink handler for seee (--set-eee) 139 * Feature: netlink handler for tsinfo (-T) 140 * Feature: master/slave configuration support 141 * Feature: LINKSTATE SQI support 142 * Feature: cable test support 143 * Feature: cable test TDR support 144 * Feature: JSON output for cable test commands 145 * Feature: igc driver support 146 * Feature: support for get/set ethtool_tunable 147 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 SERDES 148 * Fix: fix build warnings 149 * Fix: fix nest type grouping in parser 150 * Fix: fix msgbuff_append() helper 151 * Fix: fix unwanted switch fall through in family_info_cb() 152 * Fix: fix netlink error message suppression 153 * Fix: fix netlink bitmasks when sent as NOMASK 154 * Fix: use "Not reported" when no FEC modes are provided 155 * Fix: ioctl: do not pass transceiver value back to kernel 156 * Fix: ethtool.spec: Add bash completion script 157 158Version 5.7 - Jun 4, 2020 159 * Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon 160 * Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly 161 * Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features 162 * Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code 163 * Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback 164 * Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack 165 * Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes 166 * Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security 167 168Version 5.6 - May 12, 2020 169 * Feature: add --debug option to control debugging messages 170 * Feature: use named initializers in command line option list 171 * Feature: netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files 172 * Feature: netlink: introduce the netlink interface 173 * Feature: netlink: message buffer and composition helpers 174 * Feature: netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers 175 * Feature: netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket 176 * Feature: netlink: add support for string sets 177 * Feature: netlink: add notification monitor 178 * Feature: netlink: add bitset helpers 179 * Feature: netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option) 180 * Feature: netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings 181 * Feature: netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers 182 * Feature: netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers 183 * Feature: netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s) 184 * Feature: netlink: support tests with netlink enabled 185 * Feature: netlink: add handler for permaddr (-P) 186 * Feature: netlink: support for pretty printing netlink messages 187 * Feature: netlink: message format description for ethtool netlink 188 * Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for genetlink control 189 * Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for rtnetlink 190 * Feature: netlink: use pretty printing for ethtool netlink messages 191 192Version 5.4 - January 10, 2020 193 194 * Feature: ethtool: implement support for Energy Detect Power Down 195 * Fix: fix arithmetic on pointer to void is a GNU extension warning 196 * Fix: fix unused parameter warnings in do_version() and show_usage() 197 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in find_option() 198 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dump_eeprom() 199 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in altera_tse_dump_regs() 200 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in sfc_dump_regs() 201 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in print_simple_table() 202 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in natsemi_dump_regs() 203 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in netsemi_dump_eeprom() 204 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbe_dump_regs() 205 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in realtek_dump_regs() 206 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in lan78xx_dump_regs() 207 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in {skge, sky2}_dump_regs() 208 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dsa_dump_regs() 209 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vmxnet3_dump_regs() 210 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in st_{mac100, gmac}_dump_regs() 211 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbevf_dump_regs() 212 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_8xx_dump_regs() 213 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in tg3_dump_{eeprom, regs}() 214 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vioc_dump_regs() 215 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e100_dump_regs() 216 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in de2104[01]_dump_regs() 217 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in igb_dump_regs() 218 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_dump_regs() 219 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in smsc911x_dump_regs() 220 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in at76c50x_usb_dump_regs() 221 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_dump_regs() 222 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in amd8111e_dump_regs() 223 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in et131x_dump_regs() 224 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ibm_emac_dump_regs() 225 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgb_dump_regs() 226 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fjes_dump_regs() 227 * Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_get_mac_type() 228 * Fix: ethtool: correctly interpret bitrate of 255 229 * Fix: ethtool: mark 10G Base-ER as SFF-8472 revision 10.4 onwards 230 * Fix: ethtool: add 0x16 and 0x1c extended compliance codes 231 232Version 5.3 - September 23, 2019 233 * Feature: igb: dump RR2DCDELAY register 234 * Feature: dump nested registers 235 236Version 5.2 - July 25, 2019 237 * Feature: Add 100BaseT1 and 1000BaseT1 link modes 238 * Feature: Use standard file location macros in ethtool.spec 239 240Version 5.1 - May 17, 2019 241 * Feature: Add support for 200Gbps (50Gbps per lane) link mode 242 * Feature: simplify handling of PHY tunable downshift 243 * Feature: add support for PHY tunable Fast Link Down 244 * Feature: add PHY Fast Link Down tunable to man page 245 * Feature: Add a 'start N' option when specifying the Rx flow hash indirection table. 246 * Feature: Add bash-completion script 247 * Feature: add 10000baseR_FEC link mode name 248 * Fix: qsfp: fix special value comparison 249 * Feature: move option parsing related code into function 250 * Feature: move cmdline_coalesce out of do_scoalesce 251 * Feature: introduce new ioctl for per-queue settings 252 * Feature: support per-queue sub command --show-coalesce 253 * Feature: support per-queue sub command --coalesce 254 * Fix: fix up dump_coalesce output to match actual option names 255 * Feature: fec: add pretty dump 256 257Version 5.0 - March 13, 2019 258 * Feature: don't report UFO on kernels v4.14 and above 259 * Fix: zero initialize coalesce struct 260 * Feature: dsa: add pretty dump 261 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump 262 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6185 263 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6161 264 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 265 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6390 266 * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for others 267 268Version 4.19 - November 2, 2018 269 * Feature: support combinations of FEC modes 270 * Feature: better syntax for combinations of FEC modes 271 * Fix: Fix uninitialized variable use at qsfp dump 272 273Version 4.18 - August 24, 2018 274 * Feature: Add support for WAKE_FILTER (WoL using filters) 275 * Feature: Add support for action value -2 (wake-up filter) 276 * Fix: document WoL filters option also in help message 277 * Feature: ixgbe dump strings for security registers 278 279Version 4.17 - June 15, 2018 280 281 * Fix: In ethtool.8, remove superfluous and incorrect \c. 282 * Fix: fix uninitialized return value 283 * Fix: fix RING_VF assignment 284 * Fix: remove unused global variable 285 * Fix: several fixes in do_gregs() 286 * Fix: correctly free hkey when get_stringset() fails 287 * Fix: remove unreachable code 288 * Fix: fix stack clash in do_get_phy_tunable and do_set_phy_tunable 289 * Feature: Add register dump support for MICROCHIP LAN78xx 290 291Version 4.16 - April 13, 2018 292 293 * Feature: add support for extra RSS contexts and RSS steering filters 294 * Feature: Document RSS context control and RSS filters 295 * Fix: don't fall back to grxfhindir when context was specified 296 * Fix: correct display of VF when showing vf/queue filters 297 * Fix: show VF and queue in the help for -N 298 * Fix: correct VF index values for the ring_cookie parameter 299 * Feature: Add SFF 8636 date code parsing support 300 301Version 4.15 - February 1, 2018 302 303 * Feature: Support for FEC encoding control 304 * Fix: Fix coding style warnings and errors reported by checkpatch 305 * Feature: Add extended compliance codes parsing to sfp modules 306 * Fix: Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support" 307 * Feature: Add ETHTOOL_RESET support via --reset command 308 * Fix: fix MFLCN register dump for 82599 and newer 309 310Version 4.13 - October 27, 2017 311 312 * Fix: Do not return error code if no changes were attempted. 313 * Fix: Fix formatting of advertise bitmask 314 * Feature: Document 56000 advertise link modes 315 * Fix: fix the rx vs tx mixup in set channel message 316 * Feature: add support for HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NTP_ALL 317 * Feature: Add DMA Coalescing support 318 * Feature: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload error prints 319 * Feature: stmmac: Add macros for number of registers 320 * Feature: stmmac: Add DMA HW Feature Register 321 322Version 4.11 - June 2, 2017 323 324 * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash function 325 * Feature: support queue and VF fields for rxclass filters 326 * Feature: Add support for 2500baseT/5000baseT link modes 327 * Fix: Fix SFF 8079 cable technology bit parsing 328 * Fix: sync help output for -x/-X with man page 329 330Version 4.10 - March 24, 2017 331 332 * Fix: Fix the "advertise" parameter logic. 333 * Feature: Implement ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE and PHY downshift 334 * Feature: add register dump support for fjes driver (-d option) 335 336Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016 337 338 * Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support 339 * Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G 340 * Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode 341 * Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125 342 343Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016 344 345 * Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option) 346 * Fix: Correct some reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs 347 (-d option) 348 * Feature: Add IPv6 support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options) 349 * Feature: Add support for ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option 350 and -s option) 351 * Feature: Use netlink socket when AF_INET not available 352 353Version 4.5 - March 14, 2016 354 355 * Tests: Fix missing function declarations when building tests 356 * Tests: Fix return type of test_free() prorotype 357 * Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics option) 358 * Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page 359 * Feature: Support setting default Rx flow indirection table 360 (-X option) 361 * Fix: Use 'sane' kernel type definitions on 64-bit architectures 362 * Fix: Don't ignore fread() return value (-d option) 363 * Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file (-d option) 364 * Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option) 365 * Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c 366 * Tests: Fix use of uninitialised variable in test_realloc() 367 * Tests: Fix compiler warning in test-features.c 368 369Version 4.2 - October 9, 2015 370 371 * Feature: Support soldered-on modules in module EEPROM dump (-m option) 372 * Feature: Add register dump support for VMware vmxnet3 (-d option) 373 * Feature: Update register dump support for IBM EMAC (-d option) 374 (requires Linux 4.3 or a future stable update to 4.1 or 4.2) 375 * Doc: Fix typo in man page 376 377Version 4.0 - May 31, 2015 378 379 * Fix: Formatting of RX flow hash indirection table when size not 380 divisible by 8 (-x option) 381 * Fix: Add missing Advertised speeds (no option and -s option) 382 * Feature: Add support to get expansion ROM version (-i option) 383 * Feature: Include SFP serial number and date in EEPROM dump 384 (-m option) 385 386Version 3.18 - December 14, 2014 387 388 * Fix: Lookup of SFP Tx bias in SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) 389 * Fix: Build with musl by using more common typedefs 390 391Version 3.16 - September 22, 2014 392 393 * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash key (-x/-X options) 394 395Version 3.15 - July 20, 2014 396 397 * Feature: Add register dump support for Altera Triple Speed Ethernet 398 (-d option) 399 400Version 3.14 - April 21, 2014 401 402 * Fix: Report Backplane as supported port (no option) 403 * Feature: Allow building a smaller executable without pretty- 404 printing of register/EEPROM dumps (./configure --disable-pretty-dump) 405 * Fix: Typo in channel parameter format in an error message (-L option) 406 407Version 3.13 - January 27, 2014 408 409 * Doc: Update GPL text to include current address of the FSF 410 * Fix: Spelling fixes 411 * Doc: Fix advertising flag values in manual page for 20G link modes, 412 and add missing 1G, 10G and 40G link modes 413 414Version 3.12.1 - November 8, 2013 415 416 * Fix: Memory corruption when applying external calibration to 417 SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) 418 * Feature: Add Intel 82599 and x540 DCB registers to dump 419 (-d option) 420 421Version 3.12 - November 7, 2013 422 423 * Fix: Remove alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux 424 < 2.6.37 (-k/-K options) 425 * Fix: Hide state of VLAN tag offload and LRO if the kernel is too old 426 for us to reliably detect them (-k option) 427 * Feature: Add register dump support for Solarflare SFC9100 family 428 (-d option) 429 430Version 3.11 - September 12, 2013 431 432 * Feature: Update Realtek chip list for register dump to match 433 r8169 driver in Linux 3.11 (-d option) 434 * Feature: Add ixgbevf support for register dump (-d option) 435 * Feature: Filter ixgbe register dump according to the specific chip 436 (-d option) 437 438Version 3.10 - July 1, 2013 439 440 * Feature: Beautify private flags print (--show-priv-flags option) 441 442Version 3.9 - April 30, 2013 443 444 * Feature: Display support for 10000BASE-KR link mode (no options) 445 * Feature: Add support for new versions of ixgbe register dump 446 (-d dump) 447 448Version 3.8 - February 28, 2013 449 450 * Feature: Allow setting destination MAC address in L3/L4 flow spec 451 rules (-N/-U option) 452 * Fix: Show full 64 bits of user-data (-n/-u option) 453 * Fix: Add version check for et131x regs (-d option) 454 * Doc: Improve description of -f, -t, -s, -N/-U, -W options in man page 455 * Fix: Restore 20000baseKR2 cap display (no options) 456 457Version 3.7 - December 13, 2012 458 459 * Fix: Gracefully handle failure of register pretty-printer (-d option) 460 * Feature: Add support for et131x registers (-d option) 461 * Feature: Basic optical diagnostics for SFF-8472 modules (-m option) 462 463Version 3.6 - October 5, 2012 464 465 * Feature: Allow setting MDI-X state (-s option) 466 * Fix: Preserve pause advertising bits when setting speed and 467 duplex with autoneg on (-s option) 468 * Fix: Don't call ioctl to set EEE parameters if they are the same 469 as the current parameters (--set-eee option) 470 471Version 3.5 - August 2, 2012 472 473 * Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes 474 * Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration 475 (--show-eee and --set-eee options) 476 * Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings 477 * Feature: Display support for 40G link modes 478 * Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL 479 * Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM 480 481Version 3.4.2 - July 16, 2012 482 483 * Fix: Fix regression in RX NFC rule insertion for drivers that do 484 not select rule locations (-N/-U option) 485 * Fix: Remove bogus error message when changing offload settings 486 on Linux < 2.6.39 (-K option) 487 * Fix: Use alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux 488 < 2.6.37 (-k option) 489 490Version 3.4.1 - June 13, 2012 491 492 * Fix: Work around failure of ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for unprivileged 493 users (-k option) 494 * Fix: Report any unexpected error code from ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO 495 (-k and -K options) 496 * Doc: Fix the date of the man page to match the last update 497 498Version 3.4 - June 8, 2012 499 500 * Cleanup: Merge RX NFC options 501 * Doc: Improve description of RX NFC options 502 * Doc: Add ntuple to the -K option in the man page 503 * Feature: Show time stamping capabilities (-T option) 504 * Feature: Dump plug-in module EEPROM (-m option) 505 * Feature: Show and change all generic net device features 506 (-k and -K options) 507 508Version 3.2 - January 12, 2012 509 510 * Feature: Add support for querying and setting private flags 511 (--show-priv-flags, --set-priv-flags options) 512 * Feature: Omit zero values in Solarflare register tables (-d option) 513 * Feature: Allow driver to select RX NFC rule location (-U option) 514 * Fix: Correct register dump offsets for Intel 82575 chipsets 515 (-d option) 516 517Version 3.1 - November 16, 2011 518 519 * Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option) 520 * Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option) 521 * Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option) 522 * Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of 523 channels/queues (-l and -L options) 524 * Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option) 525 * Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname' 526 * Doc: Fix various layout problems 527 * Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing 528 * Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in 529 particular, fail if the device name is missing 530 531Version 3.0 - August 4, 2011 532 533 * Feature: Report supported pause frame modes 534 * Feature: Support firmware dump (-w and -W options) 535 * Feature: Report advertised and supported 20G link modes 536 * Feature: Add an 'l4data' option for ip4 filters (-U option) 537 * Fix: Correct swapped h_source and h_dest fields for ether filters 538 (-U option) 539 * Fix: Set ip_ver field correctly for ip4 filters (-U option) 540 * Fix: Correct parameter validation for -e and -E options; in 541 particular, treat the 'magic' value as unsigned 542 543Version 2.6.39 - June 1, 2011 544 545 * Feature: Report some driver features (-i option) 546 * Doc: Remove misleading 'Auto' advertising mask from manual page 547 * Doc: Improve table formatting on manual page, using tbl 548 * Doc: Remove initial blank page in printed manual page 549 * Doc: Fix line-wrapping of options 550 * Feature: Add support for ESP as a separate protocol from AH 551 (-n, -N, -u and -U options) 552 * Cleanup: Remove support for showing RX n-tuple settings 553 (-u option), which was never implemented correctly in the kernel 554 * Feature: Add support for RX network flow classifier (NFC) 555 (-u and -U options) 556 * Feature: Add support for e1000 M88 PHY registers (-d option) 557 * Cleanup: Change bug-address to netdev 558 559Version 2.6.38 - March 15, 2011 560 561 * Doc: Fix spelling and spacing in online help 562 * Doc: Update date, version and web site reference in manual page 563 * Doc: Fix spelling, capitalisation, consistency and style in 564 manual page 565 * Doc: Generalise some references to network devices rather than 566 Ethernet devices 567 * Fix: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on 568 * Fix: Report an error (rather than full usage information) if 569 given an unrecognised option 570 * Feature: Add --version option 571 572Version 2.6.37 - January 5, 2011 573 574 * Fix: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from 575 Linux 2.6.9 or earlier 576 577Version 2.6.36 - November 16, 2010 578 579 * Fix: RX n-tuple masks and documentation 580 * Feature: Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and 'clear' action 581 * Feature: stmmac register dump support 582 * Feature: get permanent address (-P) option 583 * Feature: VLAN acceleration control 584 585Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010 586 587 * Feature: sfc register dump support 588 * Feature: improve cmd line parsing of ints, IPv4 addresses 589 * Feature: support ethtool named flags, messaging types 590 * Feature: minor man page fixes 591 * Feature: control RX flow hash indirection 592 593Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010 594 595 * Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming 596 * Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35) 597 * Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips 598 599Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010 600 601 This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based 602 on the latest upstream kernel interface supported. 603 604 * Fix: several man page corrections 605 * Feature: rx flow hash configuration 606 * Feature: report 10000baseT support, where available 607 * Feature: report MDI-X status, pause auto-neg, link partner adverts 608 * Feature: support additional port types 609 * Feature: support arbitrary speeds, faster than 65535 Mb 610 * Feature: large and generic receive offload (LRO, GRO) support 611 * Feature: option to flash firmware image from specified file 612 * Feature: support for block writing of EEPROMs 613 * Feature: marvell register dump update 614 * Feature: at76c50x-usb, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, r8169 register dump support 615 * Cleanup: remove support for RX hashing by port (was removed in 616 kernel by 59089d8d162ddcb5c434672e915331964d38a754) 617 * Doc: Explicitly ship GPLv2 license, rather than relying 618 on autotools to supply it for us (autotools started auto-installing 619 GPLv3 recently) 620 621Version 6 - July 26, 2007 622 623 * Fix/security: Fix handling of statistics where the label 624 is exactly 32 bytes (ETH_GSTRING_LEN). 625 * Feature: Add ability to change the advertised speed/duplex 626 to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one. 627 * Feature: ixgb register dump support 628 * Feature: sky2 register dump support 629 * Feature: Fabric7 VIOC register dump support 630 * Feature: Decode raw register dump stored in a file 631 * Feature: Add ability to force hex register dump, if desired 632 * Feature: update e1000 register dump 633 * Feature: Additional 10Gbps support 634 * Feature: Add 2.5G support 635 * Feature: Update r8169 register dump 636 * Feature: SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x register dump support 637 * Cleanup: Update internal ethtool.h copy to match upstream 638 kernel 2.6.23-rc1 version of ethtool.h. 639 640Version 5 - September 1, 2006 641 642 * Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow 643 * Feature: GSO support 644 * Feature: skge register dump 645 646Version 4 - July 18, 2006 647 648 * Feature: UFO support 649 * Feature: support long options 650 * Features: e1000, pcnet32, tg3 updates 651 * Feature: added PPC4xx EMAC support 652 * Feature: Use hexdump instead of single values for register dump 653 654Version 3 - January 27, 2005 655 656 * Feature: r8159 register dump support 657 * Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet 658 * Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD 659 * Other minor bug fixes. 660 661Version 2 - August 17, 2004 662 663 * Feature: ethtool register dump raw mode 664 * Feature: return results of self-test back to OS via exit(2) 665 * Feature: add verbose register dump for pcnet32, fec_8xx 666 * Maintenance: update to more recent autoconf 667 * Maintenance: minor updates to e1000-specific module 668 * Bug fix: Remove silly restriction on ethernet interface naming 669 670Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003 671 672 * Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps 673 * Feature: Support TSO enable/disable 674 * Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet 675 * Feature: Support writing EEPROM data 676 * Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump 677 * Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips. 678 * Feature: More supported e1000 devices. 679 * Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising 680 * Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better. 681 682Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002 683 684 * Feature: Support e100 register dumps 685 * Feature: Support tg3 eeprom dumps 686 * Feature: Support partial eeprom dumps (with non-zero offsets) 687 * Feature: Support decimal/octal/hex numbers transparently, 688 at the user's discretion. 689 690Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002 691 692 * Feature: Support e1000 register dumps 693 * Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps 694 * Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE) 695 * Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM) 696 * Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM) 697 * Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID) 698 * Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST) 699 * Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration 700 (ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG) 701 702Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002 703 704 * Fix: support usb network interfaces 705 * Fix: include redhat spec file in autoconf build system 706 * Fix: minor fixes to natsemi register dump 707 * Feature: report advertised as well as supported media, 708 when printing device settings. 709 710Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001 711 712 * Support builds on configurations missing SIOCETHTOOL constant. 713 * Import ethtool.h from kernel 2.4.15-pre6. 714 * Support retrieval/setting of per-driver debug levels 715 (ETHTOOL G/SMSGLVL) 716 * Support pretty-printing register dumps on natsemi, de2104x 717 (ETHTOOL GREGS) 718 * Support restarting autonegotiation (ETHTOOL NWAY_RST) 719 * Support obtaining link status (ETHTOOL GLINK) 720 721Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001 722 723 * Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl). 724 725Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001 726 727 * Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains 728 information from the ethernet driver associated 729 with the specified interface. 730 731