On 6/4/2020 11:35 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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 maintaining ethtool for the past few years and thanks
Michal for stepping up.
--
Florian
