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