ethtool 5.6 released
From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2020-05-12 15:43:34
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! -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.