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1Version 6.11 - October 8, 2024
2	* Feature: cmis: print active and inactive firmware versions
3	* Feature: flash transceiver module firmware (--flash-module-firmware)
4	* Feature: add T1BRR 10Mb/s mode to link mode tables
5	* Feature: support for disabling netlink from command line
6	* Fix: fix lanes parameter format specifier
7	* Fix: add missing clause 33 PSE manual description
8	* Fix: qsf: Better handling of Page A2h netlink read failure
9	* Fix: rss: retrieve ring count using ETHTOOL_GRXRINGS ioctl (-x)
10	* Misc: man page formatting fix
11
12Version 6.10 - August 9, 2024
13	* Feature: suport for PoE in PSE (--show-pse and --set-pse)
14	* Feature: add statistics support to tsinfo (-T)
15	* Feature: add JSON output to base command (no option)
16	* Feature: add JSON output to EEE info (--show-eee)
17	* Fix: qsfp: better handling on page 03h read failure (-m)
18	* Fix: handle zero arguments for module eeprom dump (-m)
19	* Fix: check for missing arguments in do_srxfh() (-X)
20	* Misc: compiler warnings in "make check"
21	* Misc: more descriptive error when JSON output is not available
22
23Version 6.9 - May 23, 2024
24	* Feature: support for rx-flow-hash gtp (-N)
25	* Feature: support for RSS input transformation (-X)
26	* Fix: typo in coalescing output (-c)
27	* Fix: document all debugging flags in man page
28
29Version 6.7 - January 29, 2024
30	* Feature: support for setting TCP data split
31	* Fix: fix new gcc14 warning
32	* Fix: fix SFF-8472 transceiver module identification (-m)
33	* Misc: code cleanup
34
35Version 6.6 - November 23, 2023
36	* Feature: support for more CMIS transceiver modules (-m)
37	* Fix: fix build on systems with old kernel uapi headers
38
39Version 6.5 - September 12, 2023
40	* Feature: register dump for hns3 driver (-d)
41	* Fix: fix fallback to ioctl for sset (-s)
42	* Fix: fix empty slot search in rmgr (-N)
43
44Version 6.4 - July 1, 2023
45	* Feature: get/set Tx push buffer length (-G)
46	* Feature: sff-8636 and cmis: report LOL / LOS / Tx Fault (-m)
47	* Fix: fix duplex setting parser (-s)
48	* Misc: check and require C11 language standard
49	* Misc: clean up obsolete pre-build checks
50
51Version 6.3 - May 8, 2023
52	* Feature: PLCA support (--[gs]et-plca-cfg, --get-plca-status)
53	* Feature: MAC Merge layer support (--show-mm, --set-mm)
54	* Feature: pass source of statistics for port stats
55	* Feature: get/set rx push in ringparams (-g and -G)
56	* Feature: coalesce tx aggregation parameters (-c and -C)
57	* Feature: PSE and PD devices (--show-pse, --set-pse)
58	* Fix: minor fixes of help text (--help)
59	* Fix: fix build on systems with older system headers
60	* Fix: fix netlink support when PLCA is not present (no option)
61	* Fix: fixes for issues found with gcc13 -fanalyzer
62	* Fix: fix return code in rxclass_rule_ins (-N)
63	* Fix: more robust argc/argv handling
64
65Version 6.2 - February 21, 2023
66	* Feature: link down event statistics (no option)
67	* Feature: JSON output for coalesce (-c)
68	* Feature: new link modes (no option)
69	* Feature: JSON output for ring (-g)
70	* Feature: netlink handler for RSS get (-x)
71	* Fix: fix boolean value output in JSON output
72	* Fix: fix build errors and warnings
73
74Version 6.1 - December 19, 2022
75	* Feature: update link mode tables
76	* Feature: register dump for NXP ENETC driver (-d)
77	* Feature: report TCP header-data split (-g)
78	* Feature: support new message types in pretty print
79	* Fix: fix compiler warnings
80	* Fix: man page syntax fixes
81
82Version 6.0 - October 10, 2022
83	* Fix: advertisement modes autoselection by lanes (-s)
84
85Version 5.19 - August 22, 2022
86	* Feature: get/set tx push (-g and -G)
87	* Feature: register dump support for TI CPSW (-d)
88	* Feature: register dump support for lan743x chipset (-d)
89	* Fix: fix missing sff-8472 output in netlink path (-m)
90	* Fix: fix EEPROM byte write (-E)
91
92Version 5.18 - June 14, 2022
93	* Feature: get/set cqe size (-g and -G)
94	* Fix: fix typo in man page
95	* Fix: fix help text alignment
96	* Fix: improve attribute label (--show-fec)
97
98Version 5.17 - April 4, 2022
99	* Feature: transceiver module power mode (--set-module)
100	* Feature: transceiver module extended state (--show-module)
101	* Feature: get/set rx buffer length (-g and -G)
102	* Feature: tx copybreak buffer size (--get-tunable and --set-tunable)
103	* Feature: JSON output for features (-k)
104	* Feature: support OSFP transceiver modules (-m)
105	* Fix: add missing free() calls (--get-tunable and --set-tunable)
106
107Version 5.16 - January 19, 2022
108	* Feature: use memory maps for module EEPROM parsing (-m)
109	* Feature: show CMIS diagnostic information (-m)
110	* Fix: fix dumping advertised FEC modes (--show-fec)
111	* Fix: ignore cable test notifications from other devices (--cable-test)
112	* Fix: do not show duplicate options in help text (--help)
113
114Version 5.15 - November 9, 2021
115	* Feature: new extended link substates for bad signal (no arg)
116	* Feature: coalesce cqe mode attributes (-c and -C)
117	* Fix: multiple fixes of EEPROM module data parsing (-m)
118	* Fix: fix condition to display MDI-X info (no arg)
119
120Version 5.14 - September 12, 2021
121	* Feature: do not silently ignore --json if unsupported
122	* Feature: support new message types in pretty print
123
124Version 5.13 - July 9, 2021
125	* Feature: netlink handler for FEC (--show-fec and --set-fec)
126	* Feature: FEC stats support (--show-fec)
127	* Feature: standard based stats support (-S)
128	* Feature: netlink handler for module EEPROM dump (-m)
129	* Feature: page, bank and i2c selection in module dump (-m)
130
131Version 5.12 - May 2, 2021
132	* Feature: support lanes count (no option and -s)
133	* Fix: fix help message for master-slave parameter (-s)
134	* Fix: better error message for master-slave in ioctl code path
135	* Fix: get rid of compiler warnings in "make check"
136
137Version 5.10 - Dec 16, 2020
138	* Feature: infrastructure for JSON output
139	* Feature: separate FLAGS in -h output
140	* Feature: use policy dumps to check flags support
141	* Feature: show pause stats (-a)
142	* Feature: pretty printing of policy dumps
143	* Feature: improve error message when SFP module is missing
144	* Fix: use after free in netlink_run_handler()
145	* Fix: leaked instances of struct nl_socket
146	* Fix: improve compatibility between netlink and ioctl (-s)
147
148Version 5.9 - Oct 15, 2020
149	* Feature: extended link state
150	* Feature: QSFP-DD support
151	* Feature: tunnel information (--show-tunnels)
152	* Feature: Broadcom bnxt support
153	* Fix: improve compatibility between ioctl and netlink output
154	* Fix: cable test TDR amplitude output
155	* Fix: get rid of build warnings
156	* Fix: null pointer dereference running against old kernel (no arg)
157	* Fix: update link mode tables
158	* Fix: fix memory leaks and error handling found by static analysis
159
160Version 5.8 - Aug 4, 2020
161	* Feature: more ethtool netlink message format descriptions
162	* Feature: omit test-features if netlink is enabled
163	* Feature: netlink handler for gfeatures (-k)
164	* Feature: netlink handler for sfeatures (-K)
165	* Feature: netlink handler for gprivflags (--show-priv-flags)
166	* Feature: netlink handler for sprivflags (--set-priv-flags)
167	* Feature: netlink handler for gring (-g)
168	* Feature: netlink handler for sring (-G)
169	* Feature: netlink handler for gchannels (-l)
170	* Feature: netlink handler for schannels (-L)
171	* Feature: netlink handler for gcoalesce (-c)
172	* Feature: netlink handler for scoalesce (-C)
173	* Feature: netlink handler for gpause (-a)
174	* Feature: netlink handler for spause (-A)
175	* Feature: netlink handler for geee (--show-eee)
176	* Feature: netlink handler for seee (--set-eee)
177	* Feature: netlink handler for tsinfo (-T)
178	* Feature: master/slave configuration support
179	* Feature: LINKSTATE SQI support
180	* Feature: cable test support
181	* Feature: cable test TDR support
182	* Feature: JSON output for cable test commands
183	* Feature: igc driver support
184	* Feature: support for get/set ethtool_tunable
185	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 SERDES
186	* Fix: fix build warnings
187	* Fix: fix nest type grouping in parser
188	* Fix: fix msgbuff_append() helper
189	* Fix: fix unwanted switch fall through in family_info_cb()
190	* Fix: fix netlink error message suppression
191	* Fix: fix netlink bitmasks when sent as NOMASK
192	* Fix: use "Not reported" when no FEC modes are provided
193	* Fix: ioctl: do not pass transceiver value back to kernel
194	* Fix: ethtool.spec: Add bash completion script
195
196Version 5.7 - Jun 4, 2020
197	* Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon
198	* Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly
199	* Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features
200	* Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code
201	* Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback
202	* Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack
203	* Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes
204	* Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security
205
206Version 5.6 - May 12, 2020
207	* Feature: add --debug option to control debugging messages
208	* Feature: use named initializers in command line option list
209	* Feature: netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files
210	* Feature: netlink: introduce the netlink interface
211	* Feature: netlink: message buffer and composition helpers
212	* Feature: netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers
213	* Feature: netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket
214	* Feature: netlink: add support for string sets
215	* Feature: netlink: add notification monitor
216	* Feature: netlink: add bitset helpers
217	* Feature: netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option)
218	* Feature: netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings
219	* Feature: netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers
220	* Feature: netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers
221	* Feature: netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s)
222	* Feature: netlink: support tests with netlink enabled
223	* Feature: netlink: add handler for permaddr (-P)
224	* Feature: netlink: support for pretty printing netlink messages
225	* Feature: netlink: message format description for ethtool netlink
226	* Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for genetlink control
227	* Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for rtnetlink
228	* Feature: netlink: use pretty printing for ethtool netlink messages
229
230Version 5.4 - January 10, 2020
231
232	* Feature: ethtool: implement support for Energy Detect Power Down
233	* Fix: fix arithmetic on pointer to void is a GNU extension warning
234	* Fix: fix unused parameter warnings in do_version() and show_usage()
235	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in find_option()
236	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dump_eeprom()
237	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in altera_tse_dump_regs()
238	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in sfc_dump_regs()
239	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in print_simple_table()
240	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in natsemi_dump_regs()
241	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in netsemi_dump_eeprom()
242	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbe_dump_regs()
243	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in realtek_dump_regs()
244	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in lan78xx_dump_regs()
245	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in {skge, sky2}_dump_regs()
246	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in dsa_dump_regs()
247	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vmxnet3_dump_regs()
248	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in st_{mac100, gmac}_dump_regs()
249	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgbevf_dump_regs()
250	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_8xx_dump_regs()
251	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in tg3_dump_{eeprom, regs}()
252	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in vioc_dump_regs()
253	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e100_dump_regs()
254	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in de2104[01]_dump_regs()
255	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in igb_dump_regs()
256	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_dump_regs()
257	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in smsc911x_dump_regs()
258	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in at76c50x_usb_dump_regs()
259	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fec_dump_regs()
260	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in amd8111e_dump_regs()
261	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in et131x_dump_regs()
262	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ibm_emac_dump_regs()
263	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in ixgb_dump_regs()
264	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in fjes_dump_regs()
265	* Fix: fix unused parameter warning in e1000_get_mac_type()
266	* Fix: ethtool: correctly interpret bitrate of 255
267	* Fix: ethtool: mark 10G Base-ER as SFF-8472 revision 10.4 onwards
268	* Fix: ethtool: add 0x16 and 0x1c extended compliance codes
269
270Version 5.3 - September 23, 2019
271	* Feature: igb: dump RR2DCDELAY register
272	* Feature: dump nested registers
273
274Version 5.2 - July 25, 2019
275	* Feature: Add 100BaseT1 and 1000BaseT1 link modes
276	* Feature: Use standard file location macros in ethtool.spec
277
278Version 5.1 - May 17, 2019
279	* Feature: Add support for 200Gbps (50Gbps per lane) link mode
280	* Feature: simplify handling of PHY tunable downshift
281	* Feature: add support for PHY tunable Fast Link Down
282	* Feature: add PHY Fast Link Down tunable to man page
283	* Feature: Add a 'start N' option when specifying the Rx flow hash indirection table.
284	* Feature: Add bash-completion script
285	* Feature: add 10000baseR_FEC link mode name
286	* Fix: qsfp: fix special value comparison
287	* Feature: move option parsing related code into function
288	* Feature: move cmdline_coalesce out of do_scoalesce
289	* Feature: introduce new ioctl for per-queue settings
290	* Feature: support per-queue sub command --show-coalesce
291	* Feature: support per-queue sub command --coalesce
292	* Fix: fix up dump_coalesce output to match actual option names
293	* Feature: fec: add pretty dump
294
295Version 5.0 - March 13, 2019
296	* Feature: don't report UFO on kernels v4.14 and above
297	* Fix: zero initialize coalesce struct
298	* Feature: dsa: add pretty dump
299	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump
300	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6185
301	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6161
302	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352
303	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6390
304	* Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for others
305
306Version 4.19 - November 2, 2018
307	* Feature: support combinations of FEC modes
308	* Feature: better syntax for combinations of FEC modes
309	* Fix: Fix uninitialized variable use at qsfp dump
310
311Version 4.18 - August 24, 2018
312	* Feature: Add support for WAKE_FILTER (WoL using filters)
313	* Feature: Add support for action value -2 (wake-up filter)
314	* Fix: document WoL filters option also in help message
315	* Feature: ixgbe dump strings for security registers
316
317Version 4.17 - June 15, 2018
318
319	* Fix: In ethtool.8, remove superfluous and incorrect \c.
320	* Fix: fix uninitialized return value
321	* Fix: fix RING_VF assignment
322	* Fix: remove unused global variable
323	* Fix: several fixes in do_gregs()
324	* Fix: correctly free hkey when get_stringset() fails
325	* Fix: remove unreachable code
326	* Fix: fix stack clash in do_get_phy_tunable and do_set_phy_tunable
327	* Feature: Add register dump support for MICROCHIP LAN78xx
328
329Version 4.16 - April 13, 2018
330
331	* Feature: add support for extra RSS contexts and RSS steering filters
332	* Feature: Document RSS context control and RSS filters
333	* Fix: don't fall back to grxfhindir when context was specified
334	* Fix: correct display of VF when showing vf/queue filters
335	* Fix: show VF and queue in the help for -N
336	* Fix: correct VF index values for the ring_cookie parameter
337	* Feature: Add SFF 8636 date code parsing support
338
339Version 4.15 - February 1, 2018
340
341	* Feature: Support for FEC encoding control
342	* Fix: Fix coding style warnings and errors reported by checkpatch
343	* Feature: Add extended compliance codes parsing to sfp modules
344	* Fix: Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support"
345	* Feature: Add ETHTOOL_RESET support via --reset command
346	* Fix: fix MFLCN register dump for 82599 and newer
347
348Version 4.13 - October 27, 2017
349
350	* Fix: Do not return error code if no changes were attempted.
351	* Fix: Fix formatting of advertise bitmask
352	* Feature: Document 56000 advertise link modes
353	* Fix: fix the rx vs tx mixup in set channel message
354	* Feature: add support for HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NTP_ALL
355	* Feature: Add DMA Coalescing support
356	* Feature: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload error prints
357	* Feature: stmmac: Add macros for number of registers
358	* Feature: stmmac: Add DMA HW Feature Register
359
360Version 4.11 - June 2, 2017
361
362	* Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash function
363	* Feature: support queue and VF fields for rxclass filters
364	* Feature: Add support for 2500baseT/5000baseT link modes
365	* Fix: Fix SFF 8079 cable technology bit parsing
366	* Fix: sync help output for -x/-X with man page
367
368Version 4.10 - March 24, 2017
369
370	* Fix: Fix the "advertise" parameter logic.
371	* Feature: Implement ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE and PHY downshift
372	* Feature: add register dump support for fjes driver (-d option)
373
374Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016
375
376	* Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support
377	* Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G
378	* Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode
379	* Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125
380
381Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016
382
383	* Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option)
384	* Fix: Correct some reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs
385	  (-d option)
386	* Feature: Add IPv6 support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options)
387	* Feature: Add support for ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option
388	  and -s option)
389	* Feature: Use netlink socket when AF_INET not available
390
391Version 4.5 - March 14, 2016
392
393	* Tests: Fix missing function declarations when building tests
394	* Tests: Fix return type of test_free() prorotype
395	* Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics option)
396	* Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page
397	* Feature: Support setting default Rx flow indirection table
398	  (-X option)
399	* Fix: Use 'sane' kernel type definitions on 64-bit architectures
400	* Fix: Don't ignore fread() return value (-d option)
401	* Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file (-d option)
402	* Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option)
403	* Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c
404	* Tests: Fix use of uninitialised variable in test_realloc()
405	* Tests: Fix compiler warning in test-features.c
406
407Version 4.2 - October 9, 2015
408
409	* Feature: Support soldered-on modules in module EEPROM dump (-m option)
410	* Feature: Add register dump support for VMware vmxnet3 (-d option)
411	* Feature: Update register dump support for IBM EMAC (-d option)
412	  (requires Linux 4.3 or a future stable update to 4.1 or 4.2)
413	* Doc: Fix typo in man page
414
415Version 4.0 - May 31, 2015
416
417	* Fix: Formatting of RX flow hash indirection table when size not
418	  divisible by 8 (-x option)
419	* Fix: Add missing Advertised speeds (no option and -s option)
420	* Feature: Add support to get expansion ROM version (-i option)
421	* Feature: Include SFP serial number and date in EEPROM dump
422	  (-m option)
423
424Version 3.18 - December 14, 2014
425
426	* Fix: Lookup of SFP Tx bias in SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option)
427	* Fix: Build with musl by using more common typedefs
428
429Version 3.16 - September 22, 2014
430
431	* Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash key (-x/-X options)
432
433Version 3.15 - July 20, 2014
434
435	* Feature: Add register dump support for Altera Triple Speed Ethernet
436	  (-d option)
437
438Version 3.14 - April 21, 2014
439
440	* Fix: Report Backplane as supported port (no option)
441	* Feature: Allow building a smaller executable without pretty-
442	  printing of register/EEPROM dumps (./configure --disable-pretty-dump)
443	* Fix: Typo in channel parameter format in an error message (-L option)
444
445Version 3.13 - January 27, 2014
446
447	* Doc: Update GPL text to include current address of the FSF
448	* Fix: Spelling fixes
449	* Doc: Fix advertising flag values in manual page for 20G link modes,
450	  and add missing 1G, 10G and 40G link modes
451
452Version 3.12.1 - November 8, 2013
453
454	* Fix: Memory corruption when applying external calibration to
455	  SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option)
456	* Feature: Add Intel 82599 and x540 DCB registers to dump
457	  (-d option)
458
459Version 3.12 - November 7, 2013
460
461	* Fix: Remove alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux
462	  < 2.6.37 (-k/-K options)
463	* Fix: Hide state of VLAN tag offload and LRO if the kernel is too old
464	  for us to reliably detect them (-k option)
465	* Feature: Add register dump support for Solarflare SFC9100 family
466	  (-d option)
467
468Version 3.11 - September 12, 2013
469
470	* Feature: Update Realtek chip list for register dump to match
471	  r8169 driver in Linux 3.11 (-d option)
472	* Feature: Add ixgbevf support for register dump (-d option)
473	* Feature: Filter ixgbe register dump according to the specific chip
474	  (-d option)
475
476Version 3.10 - July 1, 2013
477
478	* Feature: Beautify private flags print (--show-priv-flags option)
479
480Version 3.9 - April 30, 2013
481
482	* Feature: Display support for 10000BASE-KR link mode (no options)
483	* Feature: Add support for new versions of ixgbe register dump
484	  (-d dump)
485
486Version 3.8 - February 28, 2013
487
488	* Feature: Allow setting destination MAC address in L3/L4 flow spec
489	  rules (-N/-U option)
490	* Fix: Show full 64 bits of user-data (-n/-u option)
491	* Fix: Add version check for et131x regs (-d option)
492	* Doc: Improve description of -f, -t, -s, -N/-U, -W options in man page
493	* Fix: Restore 20000baseKR2 cap display (no options)
494
495Version 3.7 - December 13, 2012
496
497	* Fix: Gracefully handle failure of register pretty-printer (-d option)
498	* Feature: Add support for et131x registers (-d option)
499	* Feature: Basic optical diagnostics for SFF-8472 modules (-m option)
500
501Version 3.6 - October 5, 2012
502
503	* Feature: Allow setting MDI-X state (-s option)
504	* Fix: Preserve pause advertising bits when setting speed and
505	  duplex with autoneg on (-s option)
506	* Fix: Don't call ioctl to set EEE parameters if they are the same
507	  as the current parameters (--set-eee option)
508
509Version 3.5 - August 2, 2012
510
511	* Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes
512	* Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration
513	  (--show-eee and --set-eee options)
514	* Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings
515	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes
516	* Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL
517	* Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM
518
519Version 3.4.2 - July 16, 2012
520
521	* Fix: Fix regression in RX NFC rule insertion for drivers that do
522	  not select rule locations (-N/-U option)
523	* Fix: Remove bogus error message when changing offload settings
524	  on Linux < 2.6.39 (-K option)
525	* Fix: Use alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux
526	  < 2.6.37 (-k option)
527
528Version 3.4.1 - June 13, 2012
529
530	* Fix: Work around failure of ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for unprivileged
531	  users (-k option)
532	* Fix: Report any unexpected error code from ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO
533	  (-k and -K options)
534	* Doc: Fix the date of the man page to match the last update
535
536Version 3.4 - June 8, 2012
537
538	* Cleanup: Merge RX NFC options
539	* Doc: Improve description of RX NFC options
540	* Doc: Add ntuple to the -K option in the man page
541	* Feature: Show time stamping capabilities (-T option)
542	* Feature: Dump plug-in module EEPROM (-m option)
543	* Feature: Show and change all generic net device features
544	  (-k and -K options)
545
546Version 3.2 - January 12, 2012
547
548	* Feature: Add support for querying and setting private flags
549	  (--show-priv-flags, --set-priv-flags options)
550	* Feature: Omit zero values in Solarflare register tables (-d option)
551	* Feature: Allow driver to select RX NFC rule location (-U option)
552	* Fix: Correct register dump offsets for Intel 82575 chipsets
553	  (-d option)
554
555Version 3.1 - November 16, 2011
556
557	* Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option)
558	* Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option)
559	* Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option)
560	* Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of
561	  channels/queues (-l and -L options)
562	* Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option)
563	* Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname'
564	* Doc: Fix various layout problems
565	* Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing
566	* Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in
567	  particular, fail if the device name is missing
568
569Version 3.0 - August 4, 2011
570
571	* Feature: Report supported pause frame modes
572	* Feature: Support firmware dump (-w and -W options)
573	* Feature: Report advertised and supported 20G link modes
574	* Feature: Add an 'l4data' option for ip4 filters (-U option)
575	* Fix: Correct swapped h_source and h_dest fields for ether filters
576	  (-U option)
577	* Fix: Set ip_ver field correctly for ip4 filters (-U option)
578	* Fix: Correct parameter validation for -e and -E options; in
579	  particular, treat the 'magic' value as unsigned
580
581Version 2.6.39 - June 1, 2011
582
583	* Feature: Report some driver features (-i option)
584	* Doc: Remove misleading 'Auto' advertising mask from manual page
585	* Doc: Improve table formatting on manual page, using tbl
586	* Doc: Remove initial blank page in printed manual page
587	* Doc: Fix line-wrapping of options
588	* Feature: Add support for ESP as a separate protocol from AH
589	  (-n, -N, -u and -U options)
590	* Cleanup: Remove support for showing RX n-tuple settings
591	  (-u option), which was never implemented correctly in the kernel
592	* Feature: Add support for RX network flow classifier (NFC)
593	  (-u and -U options)
594	* Feature: Add support for e1000 M88 PHY registers (-d option)
595	* Cleanup: Change bug-address to netdev
596
597Version 2.6.38 - March 15, 2011
598
599	* Doc: Fix spelling and spacing in online help
600	* Doc: Update date, version and web site reference in manual page
601	* Doc: Fix spelling, capitalisation, consistency and style in
602	  manual page
603	* Doc: Generalise some references to network devices rather than
604	  Ethernet devices
605	* Fix: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on
606	* Fix: Report an error (rather than full usage information) if
607	  given an unrecognised option
608	* Feature: Add --version option
609
610Version 2.6.37 - January 5, 2011
611
612	* Fix: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from
613	  Linux 2.6.9 or earlier
614
615Version 2.6.36 - November 16, 2010
616
617	* Fix: RX n-tuple masks and documentation
618	* Feature: Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and 'clear' action
619	* Feature: stmmac register dump support
620	* Feature: get permanent address (-P) option
621	* Feature: VLAN acceleration control
622
623Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010
624
625	* Feature: sfc register dump support
626	* Feature: improve cmd line parsing of ints, IPv4 addresses
627	* Feature: support ethtool named flags, messaging types
628	* Feature: minor man page fixes
629	* Feature: control RX flow hash indirection
630
631Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010
632
633	* Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming
634	* Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35)
635	* Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips
636
637Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010
638
639	This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based
640	on the latest upstream kernel interface supported.
641
642	* Fix: several man page corrections
643	* Feature: rx flow hash configuration
644	* Feature: report 10000baseT support, where available
645	* Feature: report MDI-X status, pause auto-neg, link partner adverts
646	* Feature: support additional port types
647	* Feature: support arbitrary speeds, faster than 65535 Mb
648	* Feature: large and generic receive offload (LRO, GRO) support
649	* Feature: option to flash firmware image from specified file
650	* Feature: support for block writing of EEPROMs
651	* Feature: marvell register dump update
652	* Feature: at76c50x-usb, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, r8169 register dump support
653	* Cleanup: remove support for RX hashing by port (was removed in
654	  kernel by 59089d8d162ddcb5c434672e915331964d38a754)
655	* Doc: Explicitly ship GPLv2 license, rather than relying
656	  on autotools to supply it for us (autotools started auto-installing
657	  GPLv3 recently)
658
659Version 6 - July 26, 2007
660
661	* Fix/security: Fix handling of statistics where the label
662	  is exactly 32 bytes (ETH_GSTRING_LEN).
663	* Feature: Add ability to change the advertised speed/duplex
664	  to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one.
665	* Feature: ixgb register dump support
666	* Feature: sky2 register dump support
667	* Feature: Fabric7 VIOC register dump support
668	* Feature: Decode raw register dump stored in a file
669	* Feature: Add ability to force hex register dump, if desired
670	* Feature: update e1000 register dump
671	* Feature: Additional 10Gbps support
672	* Feature: Add 2.5G support
673	* Feature: Update r8169 register dump
674	* Feature: SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x register dump support
675	* Cleanup: Update internal ethtool.h copy to match upstream
676	  kernel 2.6.23-rc1 version of ethtool.h.
677
678Version 5 - September 1, 2006
679
680	* Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow
681	* Feature: GSO support
682	* Feature: skge register dump
683
684Version 4 - July 18, 2006
685
686	* Feature: UFO support
687	* Feature: support long options
688	* Features: e1000, pcnet32, tg3 updates
689	* Feature: added PPC4xx EMAC support
690	* Feature: Use hexdump instead of single values for register dump
691
692Version 3 - January 27, 2005
693
694	* Feature: r8159 register dump support
695	* Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet
696	* Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD
697	* Other minor bug fixes.
698
699Version 2 - August 17, 2004
700
701	* Feature: ethtool register dump raw mode
702	* Feature: return results of self-test back to OS via exit(2)
703	* Feature: add verbose register dump for pcnet32, fec_8xx
704	* Maintenance: update to more recent autoconf
705	* Maintenance: minor updates to e1000-specific module
706	* Bug fix: Remove silly restriction on ethernet interface naming
707
708Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003
709
710	* Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps
711	* Feature: Support TSO enable/disable
712	* Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet
713	* Feature: Support writing EEPROM data
714	* Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump
715	* Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips.
716	* Feature: More supported e1000 devices.
717	* Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising
718	* Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better.
719
720Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002
721
722	* Feature: Support e100 register dumps
723	* Feature: Support tg3 eeprom dumps
724	* Feature: Support partial eeprom dumps (with non-zero offsets)
725	* Feature: Support decimal/octal/hex numbers transparently,
726	  at the user's discretion.
727
728Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002
729
730	* Feature: Support e1000 register dumps
731	* Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps
732	* Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE)
733	* Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM)
734	* Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM)
735	* Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID)
736	* Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST)
737	* Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration
738		(ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG)
739
740Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002
741
742	* Fix: support usb network interfaces
743	* Fix: include redhat spec file in autoconf build system
744	* Fix: minor fixes to natsemi register dump
745	* Feature: report advertised as well as supported media,
746	  when printing device settings.
747
748Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001
749
750	* Support builds on configurations missing SIOCETHTOOL constant.
751	* Import ethtool.h from kernel 2.4.15-pre6.
752	* Support retrieval/setting of per-driver debug levels
753	  (ETHTOOL G/SMSGLVL)
754	* Support pretty-printing register dumps on natsemi, de2104x
755	  (ETHTOOL GREGS)
756	* Support restarting autonegotiation (ETHTOOL NWAY_RST)
757	* Support obtaining link status (ETHTOOL GLINK)
758
759Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001
760
761	* Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl).
762
763Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001
764
765	* Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains
766	  information from the ethernet driver associated
767	  with the specified interface.
768
769