Bug 26615

Summary:	ethtool 5.6 update for kernel 5.6
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andrewsfarm, herman.viaene, sysadmin-bugs, tmb
Version:	7	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA7-64-OK
Source RPM:	ethtool-5.4-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2020-05-13 13:12:03 CEST

Advisory:
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The ethtool package has been updated to version 5.6 to support the newest
features in the 5.6 kernel.

References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git/tree/NEWS?h=v5.6
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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ethtool-5.6-1.mga7

from ethtool-5.6-1.mga7.src.rpm

Comment 1 Herman Viaene 2020-05-14 15:37:00 CEST

MGA7-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50
No installation issues.
This laptop normally connects wifi, so after the update I plugged in the Ethernet cable, used Network Center to disable wifi, checked ethernet was connected and refreshed browser. All OK
# ethtool -h
ethtool version 5.6
Usage:
        ethtool [ --debug MASK ] DEVNAME        Display standard information about device
        ethtool [ --debug MASK ] -s|--change DEVNAME    Change generic options
                [ speed %d ]
                [ duplex half|full ]
and more ......

# ethtool -i enp8s0
driver: r8169
version: 5.6.8-desktop-1.mga7
firmware-version: rtl8168g-3_0.0.1 04/23/13
expansion-rom-version: 
bus-info: 0000:08:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

# ethtool -d enp8s0
RealTek RTL8168g/8111g registers:
--------------------------------------------------------
0x00: MAC Address                      f0:76:1c:ed:de:00
0x08: Multicast Address Filter     0x00400040 0x00804080
0x10: Dump Tally Counter Command   0x53fbb000 0x00000002
0x20: Tx Normal Priority Ring Addr 0x5107c000 0x00000002
0x28: Tx High Priority Ring Addr   0x00000000 0x00000000
0x30: Flash memory read/write                 0x00000000
0x34: Early Rx Byte Count                              0
0x36: Early Rx Status                               0x00
0x37: Command                                       0x0c
      Rx on, Tx on
0x3C: Interrupt Mask                              0x003f
      LinkChg RxNoBuf TxErr TxOK RxErr RxOK 
0x3E: Interrupt Status                            0x0000
      
0x40: Tx Configuration                        0x53900f80
0x44: Rx Configuration                        0x0002cf0e
0x48: Timer count                             0x00000000
0x4C: Missed packet counter                     0x000000
0x50: EEPROM Command                                0x10
0x51: Config 0                                      0x00
0x52: Config 1                                      0xcf
0x53: Config 2                                      0x3c
0x54: Config 3                                      0x60
0x55: Config 4                                      0x50
0x56: Config 5                                      0x02
0x58: Timer interrupt                         0x00000000
and more ......

Same behavior as bug 25400, so all seems OK.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 2 Thomas Andrews 2020-05-15 00:54:51 CEST

Validating. Advisory in Comment 0.

CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update

Thomas Backlund 2020-05-15 17:04:34 CEST

Keywords: (none) => advisory
CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 Mageia Robot 2020-05-15 17:49:27 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2020-0129.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED