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