From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265981AbUHQM1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:27:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266085AbUHQM1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:27:12 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:2762 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265981AbUHQM1J (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4121F991.4000004@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:26:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Netdev CC: Linux Kernel Subject: ethtool version 2 released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just released a small update to ethtool, version 2, posted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ Like its cousin "blktool", ethtool now has a simplified version scheme, an ascending number. For those unfamiliar with ethtool, it is a utility designed to configure specific features founds on most ethernet cards. Summary of changes (mainly the new version scheme): * 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