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1Version 5.3 - September 23, 2019
2	* Feature: igb: dump RR2DCDELAY register
3	* Feature: dump nested registers
4
5Version 5.2 - July 25, 2019
6	* Feature: Add 100BaseT1 and 1000BaseT1 link modes
7	* Feature: Use standard file location macros in ethtool.spec
8
9Version 5.1 - May 17, 2019
10	* Feature: Add support for 200Gbps (50Gbps per lane) link mode
11	* Feature: simplify handling of PHY tunable downshift
12	* Feature: add support for PHY tunable Fast Link Down
13	* Feature: add PHY Fast Link Down tunable to man page
14	* Feature: Add a 'start N' option when specifying the Rx flow hash indirection table.
15	* Feature: Add bash-completion script
16	* Feature: add 10000baseR_FEC link mode name
17	* Fix: qsfp: fix special value comparison
18	* Feature: move option parsing related code into function
19	* Feature: move cmdline_coalesce out of do_scoalesce
20	* Feature: introduce new ioctl for per-queue settings
21	* Feature: support per-queue sub command --show-coalesce
22	* Feature: support per-queue sub command --coalesce
23	* Fix: fix up dump_coalesce output to match actual option names
24	* Feature: fec: add pretty dump
25
26Version 5.0 - March 13, 2019
27	* Feature: don't report UFO on kernels v4.14 and above
28	* Fix: zero initialize coalesce struct
29	* Feature: dsa: add pretty dump
30	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump
31	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6185
32	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6161
33	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352
34	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6390
35	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for others
36
37Version 4.19 - November 2, 2018
38	* Feature: support combinations of FEC modes
39	* Feature: better syntax for combinations of FEC modes
40	* Fix: Fix uninitialized variable use at qsfp dump
41
42Version 4.18 - August 24, 2018
43	* Feature: Add support for WAKE_FILTER (WoL using filters)
44	* Feature: Add support for action value -2 (wake-up filter)
45	* Fix: document WoL filters option also in help message
46	* Feature: ixgbe dump strings for security registers
47
48Version 4.17 - June 15, 2018
49
50	* Fix: In ethtool.8, remove superfluous and incorrect \c.
51	* Fix: fix uninitialized return value
52	* Fix: fix RING_VF assignment
53	* Fix: remove unused global variable
54	* Fix: several fixes in do_gregs()
55	* Fix: correctly free hkey when get_stringset() fails
56	* Fix: remove unreachable code
57	* Fix: fix stack clash in do_get_phy_tunable and do_set_phy_tunable
58	* Feature: Add register dump support for MICROCHIP LAN78xx
59
60Version 4.16 - April 13, 2018
61
62	* Feature: add support for extra RSS contexts and RSS steering filters
63	* Feature: Document RSS context control and RSS filters
64	* Fix: don't fall back to grxfhindir when context was specified
65	* Fix: correct display of VF when showing vf/queue filters
66	* Fix: show VF and queue in the help for -N
67	* Fix: correct VF index values for the ring_cookie parameter
68	* Feature: Add SFF 8636 date code parsing support
69
70Version 4.15 - February 1, 2018
71
72	* Feature: Support for FEC encoding control
73	* Fix: Fix coding style warnings and errors reported by checkpatch
74	* Feature: Add extended compliance codes parsing to sfp modules
75	* Fix: Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support"
76	* Feature: Add ETHTOOL_RESET support via --reset command
77	* Fix: fix MFLCN register dump for 82599 and newer
78
79Version 4.13 - October 27, 2017
80
81	* Fix: Do not return error code if no changes were attempted.
82	* Fix: Fix formatting of advertise bitmask
83	* Feature: Document 56000 advertise link modes
84	* Fix: fix the rx vs tx mixup in set channel message
85	* Feature: add support for HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NTP_ALL
86	* Feature: Add DMA Coalescing support
87	* Feature: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload error prints
88	* Feature: stmmac: Add macros for number of registers
89	* Feature: stmmac: Add DMA HW Feature Register
90
91Version 4.11 - June 2, 2017
92
93	* Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash function
94	* Feature: support queue and VF fields for rxclass filters
95	* Feature: Add support for 2500baseT/5000baseT link modes
96	* Fix: Fix SFF 8079 cable technology bit parsing
97	* Fix: sync help output for -x/-X with man page
98
99Version 4.10 - March 24, 2017
100
101	* Fix: Fix the "advertise" parameter logic.
102	* Feature: Implement ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE and PHY downshift
103	* Feature: add register dump support for fjes driver (-d option)
104
105Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016
106
107	* Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support
108	* Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G
109	* Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode
110	* Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125
111
112Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016
113
114	* Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option)
115	* Fix: Correct some reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs
116	  (-d option)
117	* Feature: Add IPv6 support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options)
118	* Feature: Add support for ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option
119	  and -s option)
120	* Feature: Use netlink socket when AF_INET not available
121
122Version 4.5 - March 14, 2016
123
124	* Tests: Fix missing function declarations when building tests
125	* Tests: Fix return type of test_free() prorotype
126	* Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics option)
127	* Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page
128	* Feature: Support setting default Rx flow indirection table
129	  (-X option)
130	* Fix: Use 'sane' kernel type definitions on 64-bit architectures
131	* Fix: Don't ignore fread() return value (-d option)
132	* Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file (-d option)
133	* Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option)
134	* Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c
135	* Tests: Fix use of uninitialised variable in test_realloc()
136	* Tests: Fix compiler warning in test-features.c
137
138Version 4.2 - October 9, 2015
139
140	* Feature: Support soldered-on modules in module EEPROM dump (-m option)
141	* Feature: Add register dump support for VMware vmxnet3 (-d option)
142	* Feature: Update register dump support for IBM EMAC (-d option)
143	  (requires Linux 4.3 or a future stable update to 4.1 or 4.2)
144	* Doc: Fix typo in man page
145
146Version 4.0 - May 31, 2015
147
148	* Fix: Formatting of RX flow hash indirection table when size not
149	  divisible by 8 (-x option)
150	* Fix: Add missing Advertised speeds (no option and -s option)
151	* Feature: Add support to get expansion ROM version (-i option)
152	* Feature: Include SFP serial number and date in EEPROM dump
153	  (-m option)
154
155Version 3.18 - December 14, 2014
156
157	* Fix: Lookup of SFP Tx bias in SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option)
158	* Fix: Build with musl by using more common typedefs
159
160Version 3.16 - September 22, 2014
161
162	* Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash key (-x/-X options)
163
164Version 3.15 - July 20, 2014
165
166	* Feature: Add register dump support for Altera Triple Speed Ethernet
167	  (-d option)
168
169Version 3.14 - April 21, 2014
170
171	* Fix: Report Backplane as supported port (no option)
172	* Feature: Allow building a smaller executable without pretty-
173	  printing of register/EEPROM dumps (./configure --disable-pretty-dump)
174	* Fix: Typo in channel parameter format in an error message (-L option)
175
176Version 3.13 - January 27, 2014
177
178	* Doc: Update GPL text to include current address of the FSF
179	* Fix: Spelling fixes
180	* Doc: Fix advertising flag values in manual page for 20G link modes,
181	  and add missing 1G, 10G and 40G link modes
182
183Version 3.12.1 - November 8, 2013
184
185	* Fix: Memory corruption when applying external calibration to
186	  SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option)
187	* Feature: Add Intel 82599 and x540 DCB registers to dump
188	  (-d option)
189
190Version 3.12 - November 7, 2013
191
192	* Fix: Remove alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux
193	  < 2.6.37 (-k/-K options)
194	* Fix: Hide state of VLAN tag offload and LRO if the kernel is too old
195	  for us to reliably detect them (-k option)
196	* Feature: Add register dump support for Solarflare SFC9100 family
197	  (-d option)
198
199Version 3.11 - September 12, 2013
200
201	* Feature: Update Realtek chip list for register dump to match
202	  r8169 driver in Linux 3.11 (-d option)
203	* Feature: Add ixgbevf support for register dump (-d option)
204	* Feature: Filter ixgbe register dump according to the specific chip
205	  (-d option)
206
207Version 3.10 - July 1, 2013
208
209	* Feature: Beautify private flags print (--show-priv-flags option)
210
211Version 3.9 - April 30, 2013
212
213	* Feature: Display support for 10000BASE-KR link mode (no options)
214	* Feature: Add support for new versions of ixgbe register dump
215	  (-d dump)
216
217Version 3.8 - February 28, 2013
218
219	* Feature: Allow setting destination MAC address in L3/L4 flow spec
220	  rules (-N/-U option)
221	* Fix: Show full 64 bits of user-data (-n/-u option)
222	* Fix: Add version check for et131x regs (-d option)
223	* Doc: Improve description of -f, -t, -s, -N/-U, -W options in man page
224	* Fix: Restore 20000baseKR2 cap display (no options)
225
226Version 3.7 - December 13, 2012
227
228	* Fix: Gracefully handle failure of register pretty-printer (-d option)
229	* Feature: Add support for et131x registers (-d option)
230	* Feature: Basic optical diagnostics for SFF-8472 modules (-m option)
231
232Version 3.6 - October 5, 2012
233
234	* Feature: Allow setting MDI-X state (-s option)
235	* Fix: Preserve pause advertising bits when setting speed and
236	  duplex with autoneg on (-s option)
237	* Fix: Don't call ioctl to set EEE parameters if they are the same
238	  as the current parameters (--set-eee option)
239
240Version 3.5 - August 2, 2012
241
242	* Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes
243	* Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration
244	  (--show-eee and --set-eee options)
245	* Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings
246	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes
247	* Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL
248	* Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM
249
250Version 3.4.2 - July 16, 2012
251
252	* Fix: Fix regression in RX NFC rule insertion for drivers that do
253	  not select rule locations (-N/-U option)
254	* Fix: Remove bogus error message when changing offload settings
255	  on Linux < 2.6.39 (-K option)
256	* Fix: Use alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux
257	  < 2.6.37 (-k option)
258
259Version 3.4.1 - June 13, 2012
260
261	* Fix: Work around failure of ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for unprivileged
262	  users (-k option)
263	* Fix: Report any unexpected error code from ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO
264	  (-k and -K options)
265	* Doc: Fix the date of the man page to match the last update
266
267Version 3.4 - June 8, 2012
268
269	* Cleanup: Merge RX NFC options
270	* Doc: Improve description of RX NFC options
271	* Doc: Add ntuple to the -K option in the man page
272	* Feature: Show time stamping capabilities (-T option)
273	* Feature: Dump plug-in module EEPROM (-m option)
274	* Feature: Show and change all generic net device features
275	  (-k and -K options)
276
277Version 3.2 - January 12, 2012
278
279	* Feature: Add support for querying and setting private flags
280	  (--show-priv-flags, --set-priv-flags options)
281	* Feature: Omit zero values in Solarflare register tables (-d option)
282	* Feature: Allow driver to select RX NFC rule location (-U option)
283	* Fix: Correct register dump offsets for Intel 82575 chipsets
284	  (-d option)
285
286Version 3.1 - November 16, 2011
287
288	* Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option)
289	* Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option)
290	* Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option)
291	* Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of
292	  channels/queues (-l and -L options)
293	* Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option)
294	* Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname'
295	* Doc: Fix various layout problems
296	* Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing
297	* Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in
298	  particular, fail if the device name is missing
299
300Version 3.0 - August 4, 2011
301
302	* Feature: Report supported pause frame modes
303	* Feature: Support firmware dump (-w and -W options)
304	* Feature: Report advertised and supported 20G link modes
305	* Feature: Add an 'l4data' option for ip4 filters (-U option)
306	* Fix: Correct swapped h_source and h_dest fields for ether filters
307	  (-U option)
308	* Fix: Set ip_ver field correctly for ip4 filters (-U option)
309	* Fix: Correct parameter validation for -e and -E options; in
310	  particular, treat the 'magic' value as unsigned
311
312Version 2.6.39 - June 1, 2011
313
314	* Feature: Report some driver features (-i option)
315	* Doc: Remove misleading 'Auto' advertising mask from manual page
316	* Doc: Improve table formatting on manual page, using tbl
317	* Doc: Remove initial blank page in printed manual page
318	* Doc: Fix line-wrapping of options
319	* Feature: Add support for ESP as a separate protocol from AH
320	  (-n, -N, -u and -U options)
321	* Cleanup: Remove support for showing RX n-tuple settings
322	  (-u option), which was never implemented correctly in the kernel
323	* Feature: Add support for RX network flow classifier (NFC)
324	  (-u and -U options)
325	* Feature: Add support for e1000 M88 PHY registers (-d option)
326	* Cleanup: Change bug-address to netdev
327
328Version 2.6.38 - March 15, 2011
329
330	* Doc: Fix spelling and spacing in online help
331	* Doc: Update date, version and web site reference in manual page
332	* Doc: Fix spelling, capitalisation, consistency and style in
333	  manual page
334	* Doc: Generalise some references to network devices rather than
335	  Ethernet devices
336	* Fix: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on
337	* Fix: Report an error (rather than full usage information) if
338	  given an unrecognised option
339	* Feature: Add --version option
340
341Version 2.6.37 - January 5, 2011
342
343	* Fix: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from
344	  Linux 2.6.9 or earlier
345
346Version 2.6.36 - November 16, 2010
347
348	* Fix: RX n-tuple masks and documentation
349	* Feature: Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and 'clear' action
350	* Feature: stmmac register dump support
351	* Feature: get permanent address (-P) option
352	* Feature: VLAN acceleration control
353
354Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010
355
356	* Feature: sfc register dump support
357	* Feature: improve cmd line parsing of ints, IPv4 addresses
358	* Feature: support ethtool named flags, messaging types
359	* Feature: minor man page fixes
360	* Feature: control RX flow hash indirection
361
362Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010
363
364	* Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming
365	* Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35)
366	* Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips
367
368Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010
369
370	This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based
371	on the latest upstream kernel interface supported.
372
373	* Fix: several man page corrections
374	* Feature: rx flow hash configuration
375	* Feature: report 10000baseT support, where available
376	* Feature: report MDI-X status, pause auto-neg, link partner adverts
377	* Feature: support additional port types
378	* Feature: support arbitrary speeds, faster than 65535 Mb
379	* Feature: large and generic receive offload (LRO, GRO) support
380	* Feature: option to flash firmware image from specified file
381	* Feature: support for block writing of EEPROMs
382	* Feature: marvell register dump update
383	* Feature: at76c50x-usb, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, r8169 register dump support
384	* Cleanup: remove support for RX hashing by port (was removed in
385	  kernel by 59089d8d162ddcb5c434672e915331964d38a754)
386	* Doc: Explicitly ship GPLv2 license, rather than relying
387	  on autotools to supply it for us (autotools started auto-installing
388	  GPLv3 recently)
389
390Version 6 - July 26, 2007
391
392	* Fix/security: Fix handling of statistics where the label
393	  is exactly 32 bytes (ETH_GSTRING_LEN).
394	* Feature: Add ability to change the advertised speed/duplex
395	  to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one.
396	* Feature: ixgb register dump support
397	* Feature: sky2 register dump support
398	* Feature: Fabric7 VIOC register dump support
399	* Feature: Decode raw register dump stored in a file
400	* Feature: Add ability to force hex register dump, if desired
401	* Feature: update e1000 register dump
402	* Feature: Additional 10Gbps support
403	* Feature: Add 2.5G support
404	* Feature: Update r8169 register dump
405	* Feature: SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x register dump support
406	* Cleanup: Update internal ethtool.h copy to match upstream
407	  kernel 2.6.23-rc1 version of ethtool.h.
408
409Version 5 - September 1, 2006
410
411	* Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow
412	* Feature: GSO support
413	* Feature: skge register dump
414
415Version 4 - July 18, 2006
416
417	* Feature: UFO support
418	* Feature: support long options
419	* Features: e1000, pcnet32, tg3 updates
420	* Feature: added PPC4xx EMAC support
421	* Feature: Use hexdump instead of single values for register dump
422
423Version 3 - January 27, 2005
424
425	* Feature: r8159 register dump support
426	* Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet
427	* Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD
428	* Other minor bug fixes.
429
430Version 2 - August 17, 2004
431
432	* Feature: ethtool register dump raw mode
433	* Feature: return results of self-test back to OS via exit(2)
434	* Feature: add verbose register dump for pcnet32, fec_8xx
435	* Maintenance: update to more recent autoconf
436	* Maintenance: minor updates to e1000-specific module
437	* Bug fix: Remove silly restriction on ethernet interface naming
438
439Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003
440
441	* Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps
442	* Feature: Support TSO enable/disable
443	* Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet
444	* Feature: Support writing EEPROM data
445	* Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump
446	* Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips.
447	* Feature: More supported e1000 devices.
448	* Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising
449	* Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better.
450
451Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002
452
453	* Feature: Support e100 register dumps
454	* Feature: Support tg3 eeprom dumps
455	* Feature: Support partial eeprom dumps (with non-zero offsets)
456	* Feature: Support decimal/octal/hex numbers transparently,
457	  at the user's discretion.
458
459Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002
460
461	* Feature: Support e1000 register dumps
462	* Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps
463	* Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE)
464	* Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM)
465	* Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM)
466	* Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID)
467	* Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST)
468	* Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration
469		(ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG)
470
471Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002
472
473	* Fix: support usb network interfaces
474	* Fix: include redhat spec file in autoconf build system
475	* Fix: minor fixes to natsemi register dump
476	* Feature: report advertised as well as supported media,
477	  when printing device settings.
478
479Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001
480
481	* Support builds on configurations missing SIOCETHTOOL constant.
482	* Import ethtool.h from kernel 2.4.15-pre6.
483	* Support retrieval/setting of per-driver debug levels
484	  (ETHTOOL G/SMSGLVL)
485	* Support pretty-printing register dumps on natsemi, de2104x
486	  (ETHTOOL GREGS)
487	* Support restarting autonegotiation (ETHTOOL NWAY_RST)
488	* Support obtaining link status (ETHTOOL GLINK)
489
490Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001
491
492	* Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl).
493
494Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001
495
496	* Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains
497	  information from the ethernet driver associated
498	  with the specified interface.
499
500