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ethtool 3.1 released

From:  Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To:  netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  ethtool 3.1 released
Date:  Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:51:39 +0000
Message-ID:  <1323111099.2887.3.camel@bwh-desktop>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

ethtool version 3.1 has been released.  (It was actually tagged on 16th
November but I only managed to upload tarballs today.)

Home page: https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download:
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethto...
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethto...
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethto...
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethto...

Release notes:

	* Fix: Show all non-zero registers for tg3 (-d option)
	* Feature: Add support for external loopback test (-t option)
	* Fix: Show correct flow control registers for Intel 82599 (-d option)
	* Feature: Add support for reporting and configuring numbers of
	  channels/queues (-l and -L options)
	* Feature: Report pause frame autonegotiation result (-a option)
	* Doc: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname'
	* Doc: Fix various layout problems
	* Cleanup: Reorganise and add test cases for argument parsing
	* Fix: Strictly check for extraneous or missing arguments; in
	  particular, fail if the device name is missing

Ben.

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