Fedora 15 Update: ethtool-2.6.38-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-3801
2011-03-22 03:26:54
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Name        : ethtool
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.6.38
Release     : 1.fc15
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 2.6.38:

- ethtool: Add --version option
- ethtool: Indent the no-options usage line consistently with the others
- ethtool: Allow for long options with no short option and without a device name
- ethtool: Change loop conditions to check for a long option string.
- ethtool: Generalise check for whether option requires a device name.
- ethtool: Report an error if given an unrecognised option
- ethtool: Split show_usage() into two functions
- ethtool.8: Add macro for displaying [value N] formatting to manpage
- ethtool: Don't silently ignore speed/duplex when autoneg is on
- ethtool.8: Fix capitalisation
- ethtool.8: Reword synopses for consistency and style
- ethtool.8: Generalise references to network devices, not Ethernet
- ethtool.8: Fix obvious spelling errors
- ethtool.8: Substitute version at configure time
- ethtool.8: Update date, version, web site reference
- ethtool: Fix spelling and spacing in online help


Upstream changes for ethtool 2.6.37:

- ethtool: Remove suggested change of no-args behaviour from the TODO list
- ethtool: Remove manual page from TODO list
- ethtool: Remove MII ioctls from TODO list
- ethtool: Work around old <linux/types.h> without big-endian types
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #667594 - ethtool-2.6.38 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667594
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ethtool' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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