| 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. | |