| Version 5.3 - September 23, 2019 | |
| * Feature: igb: dump RR2DCDELAY register | |
| * Feature: dump nested registers | |
| Version 5.2 - July 25, 2019 | |
| * Feature: Add 100BaseT1 and 1000BaseT1 link modes | |
| * Feature: Use standard file location macros in ethtool.spec | |
| Version 5.1 - May 17, 2019 | |
| * Feature: Add support for 200Gbps (50Gbps per lane) link mode | |
| * Feature: simplify handling of PHY tunable downshift | |
| * Feature: add support for PHY tunable Fast Link Down | |
| * Feature: add PHY Fast Link Down tunable to man page | |
| * Feature: Add a 'start N' option when specifying the Rx flow hash indirection table. | |
| * Feature: Add bash-completion script | |
| * Feature: add 10000baseR_FEC link mode name | |
| * Fix: qsfp: fix special value comparison | |
| * Feature: move option parsing related code into function | |
| * Feature: move cmdline_coalesce out of do_scoalesce | |
| * Feature: introduce new ioctl for per-queue settings | |
| * Feature: support per-queue sub command --show-coalesce | |
| * Feature: support per-queue sub command --coalesce | |
| * Fix: fix up dump_coalesce output to match actual option names | |
| * Feature: fec: add pretty dump | |
| Version 5.0 - March 13, 2019 | |
| * Feature: don't report UFO on kernels v4.14 and above | |
| * Fix: zero initialize coalesce struct | |
| * Feature: dsa: add pretty dump | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6185 | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6161 | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6352 | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for 88E6390 | |
| * Feature: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add pretty dump for others | |
| Version 4.19 - November 2, 2018 | |
| * Feature: support combinations of FEC modes | |
| * Feature: better syntax for combinations of FEC modes | |
| * Fix: Fix uninitialized variable use at qsfp dump | |
| Version 4.18 - August 24, 2018 | |
| * Feature: Add support for WAKE_FILTER (WoL using filters) | |
| * Feature: Add support for action value -2 (wake-up filter) | |
| * Fix: document WoL filters option also in help message | |
| * Feature: ixgbe dump strings for security registers | |
| Version 4.17 - June 15, 2018 | |
| * Fix: In ethtool.8, remove superfluous and incorrect \c. | |
| * Fix: fix uninitialized return value | |
| * Fix: fix RING_VF assignment | |
| * Fix: remove unused global variable | |
| * Fix: several fixes in do_gregs() | |
| * Fix: correctly free hkey when get_stringset() fails | |
| * Fix: remove unreachable code | |
| * Fix: fix stack clash in do_get_phy_tunable and do_set_phy_tunable | |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for MICROCHIP LAN78xx | |
| Version 4.16 - April 13, 2018 | |
| * Feature: add support for extra RSS contexts and RSS steering filters | |
| * Feature: Document RSS context control and RSS filters | |
| * Fix: don't fall back to grxfhindir when context was specified | |
| * Fix: correct display of VF when showing vf/queue filters | |
| * Fix: show VF and queue in the help for -N | |
| * Fix: correct VF index values for the ring_cookie parameter | |
| * Feature: Add SFF 8636 date code parsing support | |
| Version 4.15 - February 1, 2018 | |
| * Feature: Support for FEC encoding control | |
| * Fix: Fix coding style warnings and errors reported by checkpatch | |
| * Feature: Add extended compliance codes parsing to sfp modules | |
| * Fix: Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support" | |
| * Feature: Add ETHTOOL_RESET support via --reset command | |
| * Fix: fix MFLCN register dump for 82599 and newer | |
| Version 4.13 - October 27, 2017 | |
| * Fix: Do not return error code if no changes were attempted. | |
| * Fix: Fix formatting of advertise bitmask | |
| * Feature: Document 56000 advertise link modes | |
| * Fix: fix the rx vs tx mixup in set channel message | |
| * Feature: add support for HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NTP_ALL | |
| * Feature: Add DMA Coalescing support | |
| * Feature: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload error prints | |
| * Feature: stmmac: Add macros for number of registers | |
| * Feature: stmmac: Add DMA HW Feature Register | |
| Version 4.11 - June 2, 2017 | |
| * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash function | |
| * Feature: support queue and VF fields for rxclass filters | |
| * Feature: Add support for 2500baseT/5000baseT link modes | |
| * Fix: Fix SFF 8079 cable technology bit parsing | |
| * Fix: sync help output for -x/-X with man page | |
| Version 4.10 - March 24, 2017 | |
| * Fix: Fix the "advertise" parameter logic. | |
| * Feature: Implement ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE and PHY downshift | |
| * Feature: add register dump support for fjes driver (-d option) | |
| Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016 | |
| * Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support | |
| * Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G | |
| * Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode | |
| * Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125 | |
| Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016 | |
| * Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option) | |
| * Fix: Correct some reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs | |
| (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Add IPv6 support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options) | |
| * Feature: Add support for ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option | |
| and -s option) | |
| * Feature: Use netlink socket when AF_INET not available | |
| Version 4.5 - March 14, 2016 | |
| * Tests: Fix missing function declarations when building tests | |
| * Tests: Fix return type of test_free() prorotype | |
| * Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics option) | |
| * Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page | |
| * Feature: Support setting default Rx flow indirection table | |
| (-X option) | |
| * Fix: Use 'sane' kernel type definitions on 64-bit architectures | |
| * Fix: Don't ignore fread() return value (-d option) | |
| * Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file (-d option) | |
| * Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option) | |
| * Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c | |
| * Tests: Fix use of uninitialised variable in test_realloc() | |
| * Tests: Fix compiler warning in test-features.c | |
| Version 4.2 - October 9, 2015 | |
| * Feature: Support soldered-on modules in module EEPROM dump (-m option) | |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for VMware vmxnet3 (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Update register dump support for IBM EMAC (-d option) | |
| (requires Linux 4.3 or a future stable update to 4.1 or 4.2) | |
| * Doc: Fix typo in man page | |
| Version 4.0 - May 31, 2015 | |
| * Fix: Formatting of RX flow hash indirection table when size not | |
| divisible by 8 (-x option) | |
| * Fix: Add missing Advertised speeds (no option and -s option) | |
| * Feature: Add support to get expansion ROM version (-i option) | |
| * Feature: Include SFP serial number and date in EEPROM dump | |
| (-m option) | |
| Version 3.18 - December 14, 2014 | |
| * Fix: Lookup of SFP Tx bias in SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) | |
| * Fix: Build with musl by using more common typedefs | |
| Version 3.16 - September 22, 2014 | |
| * Feature: Support for configurable RSS hash key (-x/-X options) | |
| Version 3.15 - July 20, 2014 | |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for Altera Triple Speed Ethernet | |
| (-d option) | |
| Version 3.14 - April 21, 2014 | |
| * Fix: Report Backplane as supported port (no option) | |
| * Feature: Allow building a smaller executable without pretty- | |
| printing of register/EEPROM dumps (./configure --disable-pretty-dump) | |
| * Fix: Typo in channel parameter format in an error message (-L option) | |
| Version 3.13 - January 27, 2014 | |
| * Doc: Update GPL text to include current address of the FSF | |
| * Fix: Spelling fixes | |
| * Doc: Fix advertising flag values in manual page for 20G link modes, | |
| and add missing 1G, 10G and 40G link modes | |
| Version 3.12.1 - November 8, 2013 | |
| * Fix: Memory corruption when applying external calibration to | |
| SFF-8472 module diagnostics (-m option) | |
| * Feature: Add Intel 82599 and x540 DCB registers to dump | |
| (-d option) | |
| Version 3.12 - November 7, 2013 | |
| * Fix: Remove alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux | |
| < 2.6.37 (-k/-K options) | |
| * Fix: Hide state of VLAN tag offload and LRO if the kernel is too old | |
| for us to reliably detect them (-k option) | |
| * Feature: Add register dump support for Solarflare SFC9100 family | |
| (-d option) | |
| Version 3.11 - September 12, 2013 | |
| * Feature: Update Realtek chip list for register dump to match | |
| r8169 driver in Linux 3.11 (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Add ixgbevf support for register dump (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Filter ixgbe register dump according to the specific chip | |
| (-d option) | |
| Version 3.10 - July 1, 2013 | |
| * Feature: Beautify private flags print (--show-priv-flags option) | |
| Version 3.9 - April 30, 2013 | |
| * Feature: Display support for 10000BASE-KR link mode (no options) | |
| * Feature: Add support for new versions of ixgbe register dump | |
| (-d dump) | |
| Version 3.8 - February 28, 2013 | |
| * Feature: Allow setting destination MAC address in L3/L4 flow spec | |
| rules (-N/-U option) | |
| * Fix: Show full 64 bits of user-data (-n/-u option) | |
| * Fix: Add version check for et131x regs (-d option) | |
| * Doc: Improve description of -f, -t, -s, -N/-U, -W options in man page | |
| * Fix: Restore 20000baseKR2 cap display (no options) | |
| Version 3.7 - December 13, 2012 | |
| * Fix: Gracefully handle failure of register pretty-printer (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Add support for et131x registers (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Basic optical diagnostics for SFF-8472 modules (-m option) | |
| Version 3.6 - October 5, 2012 | |
| * Feature: Allow setting MDI-X state (-s option) | |
| * Fix: Preserve pause advertising bits when setting speed and | |
| duplex with autoneg on (-s option) | |
| * Fix: Don't call ioctl to set EEE parameters if they are the same | |
| as the current parameters (--set-eee option) | |
| Version 3.5 - August 2, 2012 | |
| * Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes | |
| * Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration | |
| (--show-eee and --set-eee options) | |
| * Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings | |
| * Feature: Display support for 40G link modes | |
| * Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL | |
| * Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM | |
| Version 3.4.2 - July 16, 2012 | |
| * Fix: Fix regression in RX NFC rule insertion for drivers that do | |
| not select rule locations (-N/-U option) | |
| * Fix: Remove bogus error message when changing offload settings | |
| on Linux < 2.6.39 (-K option) | |
| * Fix: Use alternate method to check for VLAN tag offload on Linux | |
| < 2.6.37 (-k option) | |
| Version 3.4.1 - June 13, 2012 | |
| * Fix: Work around failure of ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for unprivileged | |
| users (-k option) | |
| * Fix: Report any unexpected error code from ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO | |
| (-k and -K options) | |
| * Doc: Fix the date of the man page to match the last update | |
| Version 3.4 - June 8, 2012 | |
| * Cleanup: Merge RX NFC options | |
| * Doc: Improve description of RX NFC options | |
| * Doc: Add ntuple to the -K option in the man page | |
| * Feature: Show time stamping capabilities (-T option) | |
| * Feature: Dump plug-in module EEPROM (-m option) | |
| * Feature: Show and change all generic net device features | |
| (-k and -K options) | |
| Version 3.2 - January 12, 2012 | |
| * Feature: Add support for querying and setting private flags | |
| (--show-priv-flags, --set-priv-flags options) | |
| * Feature: Omit zero values in Solarflare register tables (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Allow driver to select RX NFC rule location (-U option) | |
| * Fix: Correct register dump offsets for Intel 82575 chipsets | |
| (-d option) | |
| Version 3.1 - November 16, 2011 | |
| * Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option) | |
| * Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option) | |
| * Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of | |
| channels/queues (-l and -L options) | |
| * Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option) | |
| * Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname' | |
| * Doc: Fix various layout problems | |
| * Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing | |
| * Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in | |
| particular, fail if the device name is missing | |
| Version 3.0 - August 4, 2011 | |
| * Feature: Report supported pause frame modes | |
| * Feature: Support firmware dump (-w and -W options) | |
| * Feature: Report advertised and supported 20G link modes | |
| * Feature: Add an 'l4data' option for ip4 filters (-U option) | |
| * Fix: Correct swapped h_source and h_dest fields for ether filters | |
| (-U option) | |
| * Fix: Set ip_ver field correctly for ip4 filters (-U option) | |
| * Fix: Correct parameter validation for -e and -E options; in | |
| particular, treat the 'magic' value as unsigned | |
| Version 2.6.39 - June 1, 2011 | |
| * Feature: Report some driver features (-i option) | |
| * Doc: Remove misleading 'Auto' advertising mask from manual page | |
| * Doc: Improve table formatting on manual page, using tbl | |
| * Doc: Remove initial blank page in printed manual page | |
| * Doc: Fix line-wrapping of options | |
| * Feature: Add support for ESP as a separate protocol from AH | |
| (-n, -N, -u and -U options) | |
| * Cleanup: Remove support for showing RX n-tuple settings | |
| (-u option), which was never implemented correctly in the kernel | |
| * Feature: Add support for RX network flow classifier (NFC) | |
| (-u and -U options) | |
| * Feature: Add support for e1000 M88 PHY registers (-d option) | |
| * Cleanup: Change bug-address to netdev | |
| Version 2.6.38 - March 15, 2011 | |
| * Doc: Fix spelling and spacing in online help | |
| * Doc: Update date, version and web site reference in manual page | |
| * Doc: Fix spelling, capitalisation, consistency and style in | |
| manual page | |
| * Doc: Generalise some references to network devices rather than | |
| Ethernet devices | |
| * Fix: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on | |
| * Fix: Report an error (rather than full usage information) if | |
| given an unrecognised option | |
| * Feature: Add --version option | |
| Version 2.6.37 - January 5, 2011 | |
| * Fix: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from | |
| Linux 2.6.9 or earlier | |
| Version 2.6.36 - November 16, 2010 | |
| * Fix: RX n-tuple masks and documentation | |
| * Feature: Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and 'clear' action | |
| * Feature: stmmac register dump support | |
| * Feature: get permanent address (-P) option | |
| * Feature: VLAN acceleration control | |
| Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010 | |
| * Feature: sfc register dump support | |
| * Feature: improve cmd line parsing of ints, IPv4 addresses | |
| * Feature: support ethtool named flags, messaging types | |
| * Feature: minor man page fixes | |
| * Feature: control RX flow hash indirection | |
| Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010 | |
| * Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming | |
| * Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35) | |
| * Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips | |
| Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010 | |
| This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based | |
| on the latest upstream kernel interface supported. | |
| * Fix: several man page corrections | |
| * Feature: rx flow hash configuration | |
| * Feature: report 10000baseT support, where available | |
| * Feature: report MDI-X status, pause auto-neg, link partner adverts | |
| * Feature: support additional port types | |
| * Feature: support arbitrary speeds, faster than 65535 Mb | |
| * Feature: large and generic receive offload (LRO, GRO) support | |
| * Feature: option to flash firmware image from specified file | |
| * Feature: support for block writing of EEPROMs | |
| * Feature: marvell register dump update | |
| * Feature: at76c50x-usb, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, r8169 register dump support | |
| * Cleanup: remove support for RX hashing by port (was removed in | |
| kernel by 59089d8d162ddcb5c434672e915331964d38a754) | |
| * Doc: Explicitly ship GPLv2 license, rather than relying | |
| on autotools to supply it for us (autotools started auto-installing | |
| GPLv3 recently) | |
| Version 6 - July 26, 2007 | |
| * Fix/security: Fix handling of statistics where the label | |
| is exactly 32 bytes (ETH_GSTRING_LEN). | |
| * Feature: Add ability to change the advertised speed/duplex | |
| to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one. | |
| * Feature: ixgb register dump support | |
| * Feature: sky2 register dump support | |
| * Feature: Fabric7 VIOC register dump support | |
| * Feature: Decode raw register dump stored in a file | |
| * Feature: Add ability to force hex register dump, if desired | |
| * Feature: update e1000 register dump | |
| * Feature: Additional 10Gbps support | |
| * Feature: Add 2.5G support | |
| * Feature: Update r8169 register dump | |
| * Feature: SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x register dump support | |
| * Cleanup: Update internal ethtool.h copy to match upstream | |
| kernel 2.6.23-rc1 version of ethtool.h. | |
| Version 5 - September 1, 2006 | |
| * Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow | |
| * Feature: GSO support | |
| * Feature: skge register dump | |
| Version 4 - July 18, 2006 | |
| * Feature: UFO support | |
| * Feature: support long options | |
| * Features: e1000, pcnet32, tg3 updates | |
| * Feature: added PPC4xx EMAC support | |
| * Feature: Use hexdump instead of single values for register dump | |
| Version 3 - January 27, 2005 | |
| * Feature: r8159 register dump support | |
| * Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet | |
| * Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD | |
| * Other minor bug fixes. | |
| Version 2 - August 17, 2004 | |
| * Feature: ethtool register dump raw mode | |
| * Feature: return results of self-test back to OS via exit(2) | |
| * Feature: add verbose register dump for pcnet32, fec_8xx | |
| * Maintenance: update to more recent autoconf | |
| * Maintenance: minor updates to e1000-specific module | |
| * Bug fix: Remove silly restriction on ethernet interface naming | |
| Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003 | |
| * Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps | |
| * Feature: Support TSO enable/disable | |
| * Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet | |
| * Feature: Support writing EEPROM data | |
| * Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump | |
| * Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips. | |
| * Feature: More supported e1000 devices. | |
| * Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising | |
| * Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better. | |
| Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002 | |
| * Feature: Support e100 register dumps | |
| * Feature: Support tg3 eeprom dumps | |
| * Feature: Support partial eeprom dumps (with non-zero offsets) | |
| * Feature: Support decimal/octal/hex numbers transparently, | |
| at the user's discretion. | |
| Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002 | |
| * Feature: Support e1000 register dumps | |
| * Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps | |
| * Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE) | |
| * Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM) | |
| * Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM) | |
| * Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID) | |
| * Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST) | |
| * Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration | |
| (ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG) | |
| Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002 | |
| * Fix: support usb network interfaces | |
| * Fix: include redhat spec file in autoconf build system | |
| * Fix: minor fixes to natsemi register dump | |
| * Feature: report advertised as well as supported media, | |
| when printing device settings. | |
| Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001 | |
| * Support builds on configurations missing SIOCETHTOOL constant. | |
| * Import ethtool.h from kernel 2.4.15-pre6. | |
| * Support retrieval/setting of per-driver debug levels | |
| (ETHTOOL G/SMSGLVL) | |
| * Support pretty-printing register dumps on natsemi, de2104x | |
| (ETHTOOL GREGS) | |
| * Support restarting autonegotiation (ETHTOOL NWAY_RST) | |
| * Support obtaining link status (ETHTOOL GLINK) | |
| Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001 | |
| * Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl). | |
| Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001 | |
| * Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains | |
| information from the ethernet driver associated | |
| with the specified interface. | |