ethtool 5.7 released

ethtool 5.7 released

[John W. Linville]

ethtool version 5.7 has been released.

Home page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download link:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-5.7.tar.xz

Release notes:

	* Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon
	* Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly
	* Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features
	* Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code
	* Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback
	* Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack
	* Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes
	* Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security

This should be my last release as maintainer of ethtool. Michal
Kubecek has graciously agreed to take-on that responsibility, and I
have every confidence that he will do a great job in that capacity
for our community.

Thanks, Michal!

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

Re: ethtool 5.7 released

[Florian Fainelli]

On 6/4/2020 11:35 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> ethtool version 5.7 has been released.
> 
> Home page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
> Download link:
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-5.7.tar.xz
> 
> Release notes:
> 
> 	* Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon
> 	* Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly
> 	* Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features
> 	* Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code
> 	* Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback
> 	* Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack
> 	* Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes
> 	* Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security
> 
> This should be my last release as maintainer of ethtool. Michal
> Kubecek has graciously agreed to take-on that responsibility, and I
> have every confidence that he will do a great job in that capacity
> for our community.
> 
> Thanks, Michal!

Thank you John for maintaining ethtool for the past few years and thanks
Michal for stepping up.
-- 
Florian

Re: ethtool 5.7 released

[David Miller]

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:35:39 -0400

> ethtool version 5.7 has been released.
> 
> Home page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
> Download link:
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-5.7.tar.xz
> 
> Release notes:
> 
> 	* Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon
> 	* Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly
> 	* Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features
> 	* Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code
> 	* Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about fallback
> 	* Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack
> 	* Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes
> 	* Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security
> 
> This should be my last release as maintainer of ethtool. Michal
> Kubecek has graciously agreed to take-on that responsibility, and I
> have every confidence that he will do a great job in that capacity
> for our community.
> 
> Thanks, Michal!

Thank you John for steering the ethtool ship all of this time and
thanks Michal for helping us with this important networking tool.