Fedora 16 Update: ethtool-3.1-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17432
2011-12-24 20:36:14
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Name        : ethtool
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.1
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
Summary     : Settings tool for Ethernet NICs
Description :
This utility allows querying and changing settings such as speed,
port, auto-negotiation, PCI locations and checksum offload on many
network devices, especially of Ethernet devices.

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Update Information:

Upstream changes for ethtool 3.1:

 - ethtool: Uncook tg3 regdump output; tg3 devices have changed a lot since the bcm5700
days. Register blocks have been added, removed and redefined.  The existing tg3 register
dump code has not kept up.
 - ethtool-copy.h: sync with net-next
 - ethtool: add support for external loopback. External loopback will be performed in
addition to other offline tests. User need to pass new parameter "external_lb"
for the same.
 - ethtool: fix flow control register dump for 82599 and newer. Fix reporting of the flow
control settings in the register dump for ixgbe. Use MFLCN for 82599 and X540 HW instead
of FCTRL.
 - ethtool: add ETHTOOL_{G,S}CHANNEL support.
 - Report pause frame autonegotiation result. If pause frame autonegotiation is enabled
and the driver reports the link partner's advertising flags, report the result of
autonegotiation.
 - ethtool.8: Fix initial blank line/page
 - Combine ethtool-{bitops,util}.h into internal.h. ethtool-util.h contains all kinds of
declarations, not just utility functions or macros. ethtool-bitops.h contains just a few
extra definitions, and its only user also includes ethtool-util.h.
 - Fix type of bit-number parameter to set_bit() and clear_bit(). The index must not be
negative, so the parameter does not need to be signed.  Division and modulus on signed
operands generally cannot be optimised to right-shift and bitwise-and.
 - ethtool.8: Change device name metavariable from 'ethX' to 'devname'
 - ethtool.8: Allow line-break in description of parameters after -N. These lines are
currently unbreakable and result in ugly wrapping in an 80-column window.
 - Fix format of help text for -f option
 - Use standard indentation for definition of struct option args. Also put the whole of
the help string on a line of its own where necessary.
 - Encapsulate command context in a structure. Replace the fd and ifr arguments to each
sub-command handler with struct cmd_context.  Change send_ioctl() to take a pointer to
this context and a pointer to the ethtool_cmd or other structure. Use send_ioctl()
consistently.
 - Add test cases for command-line parsing. Preparation for refactoring command-line
parsing. All these test cases pass.
 - Add more test cases for command-line parsing. These test cases currently fail.
 - Move argument parsing to sub-command functions. Instead of doing most of the argument
parsing in parse_cmdline(), find the sub-command and (if required) the device name in
main() and do the rest in the sub-command handler function.  Pass argc and argp around in
struct cmd_context. This also tightens up argument parsing slightly: extraneous or missing
arguments will now result in an error in a few cases where they were previously ignored. 
All test cases now pass. Replace sub-command dispatch in doit() with a function pointer in
struct option.
 - Support arbitrary numbers of option names for each mode. Instead of supporting a single
short and long option for each mode, take a string of options separated by "|"
(matching the way they are displayed in online help).
 - Fix reference to cmdline_ring in do_schannels(). cmdline_ring and cmdline_channels have
the same array size, so this just happened to work.
 - Convert cmdline_msglvl into array of named flags; convert back at run-time.
cmdline_msglvl is used both in do_gset() and do_sset(), but it refers to variables only
used in do_sset().  I want to get rid of the global variables without duplicating the flag
definitions.  So separate out the flag definitions into a new structure and generate
cmdline_msglvl from that at run-time.
 - Replace global devname variable with a field in struct cmd_context
 - Change most static global variables into automatic variables. This is necessary
preparation for in-process testing.  It should also reduce the risk of some classes of bug
by putting declaration and use closer together. Add parameters to various functions as
necessary. Leave the global constants alone.
 - rxclass: Replace global rmgr with automatic variable/parameter
 - Declare static variables const as appropriate
 - Rearrange definitions and remove unnecessary forward declarations Most functions in
ethtool.c are defined before use.  The major exception is that the args array refers to a
large number of functions defined after it.  Move the args array and show_usage()
functions down, and move a few other functions up. This leaves just one forward
declaration in ethtool.c, which is unavoidable because show_usage() and args refer to each
other.


Upstream changes for ethtool 3.0:

 - ethtool-copy.h: sync with net-next-2.6
 - Combine code to display supported and advertised link capabilities
 - Rename dump_advertised() to dump_link_caps(), and change dump_supported() to call it
instead of repeating nearly identical code. Add a separate prefix parameter and adjust
indentation so that the output is unchanged except for added lines.
 - Deleted unused parameter and variables.
 - As an immediate benefit, this adds the display of supported pause frame use.
 - Added support to take FW dump via ethtool.
 - Fix type mismatch for field width argument to fprintf()
 - ethtool: Add support for 20G link speed
 - ethtool: RX NFC corrections
 - Correct parameter types for ethtool -e and ethtool -E: All parameters to the underlying
ethtool commands are unsigned, not signed.  In particular, the 'magic' parameter
to ethtool -E often has the most significant bit set and users should not have to provide
it as a negative number. For ethtool -E, the value to be written is 8-bit, not 32-bit.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 23 2011 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; 2:3.1-1
- Upgrade to 3.1 (#728480)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #728480 - ethtool-3.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728480
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