netdev - Re: ethtool 5.7 released

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Date:   Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linville@...driver.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mkubecek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: ethtool 5.7 released

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.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.