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