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Message-ID: <20200512151051.GC615364@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 11:10:51 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ethtool 5.6 released
ethtool version 5.6 has been released.
Home page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download link:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-5.6.tar.xz
Release notes:
* Feature: add --debug option to control debugging messages
* Feature: use named initializers in command line option list
* Feature: netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files
* Feature: netlink: introduce the netlink interface
* Feature: netlink: message buffer and composition helpers
* Feature: netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers
* Feature: netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket
* Feature: netlink: add support for string sets
* Feature: netlink: add notification monitor
* Feature: netlink: add bitset helpers
* Feature: netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option)
* Feature: netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings
* Feature: netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers
* Feature: netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers
* Feature: netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s)
* Feature: netlink: support tests with netlink enabled
* Feature: netlink: add handler for permaddr (-P)
* Feature: netlink: support for pretty printing netlink messages
* Feature: netlink: message format description for ethtool netlink
* Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for genetlink control
* Feature: netlink: message format descriptions for rtnetlink
* Feature: netlink: use pretty printing for ethtool netlink messages
John
P.S. If you are interested in maintaining ethtool, please let me know!
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