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| Version 2.6.35 - August 10, 2010 |
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| * 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 |
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| Version 2.6.34 - May 26, 2010 |
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| * Feature: Support n-tuple filter programming |
| * Feature: Support rx hashing, v2 (targetted for 2.6.35) |
| * Feature: Add names of newer Marvell chips |
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| Version 2.6.33 - February 24, 2010 |
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| This version introduces a new release numbering scheme, based |
| on the latest upstream kernel interface supported. |
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| * 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) |
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| Version 6 - July 26, 2007 |
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| * 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. |
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| Version 5 - September 1, 2006 |
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| * Security: Avoid potential buffer overflow |
| * Feature: GSO support |
| * Feature: skge register dump |
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| Version 4 - July 18, 2006 |
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| * 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 |
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| Version 3 - January 27, 2005 |
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| * Feature: r8159 register dump support |
| * Feature / bug fix: Support advertising gigabit ethernet |
| * Bug fix: make sure to advertise 10baseT-HD |
| * Other minor bug fixes. |
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| Version 2 - August 17, 2004 |
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| * 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 |
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| Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003 |
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| * 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. |
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| Version 1.7 - October 21, 2002 |
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| * 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. |
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| Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002 |
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| * 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) |
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| Version 1.5 - Mar 4, 2002 |
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| * 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. |
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| Version 1.4 - Nov 19, 2001 |
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| * 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) |
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| Version 1.3 - Aug 02, 2001 |
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| * Support Wake-on-LAN (ETHTOOL GWOL and ETHTOOL SWOL ioctl). |
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| Version 1.2 - May 17, 2001 |
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| * Support ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl, which obtains |
| information from the ethernet driver associated |
| with the specified interface. |
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