diff --git a/network/ethtool/ethtool.desc b/network/ethtool/ethtool.desc index cca541ed0..4705a9149 100644 --- a/network/ethtool/ethtool.desc +++ b/network/ethtool/ethtool.desc @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] @@ -15,17 +14,27 @@ [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- -[I] Display or change ethernet card settings +[I] A utility for controlling network drivers and hardware -[T] Ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and -[T] changing them. +[T] ethtool is the standard Linux utility for controlling network drivers and +[T] hardware, particularly for wired Ethernet devices. +[T] It can be used to: +[T] - Get identification and diagnostic information +[T] - Get extended device statistics +[T] - Control speed, duplex, autonegotiation and flow control for Ethernet +[T] devices +[T] - Control checksum offload and other hardware offload features +[T] - Control DMA ring sizes and interrupt moderation +[T] - Control receive queue selection for multiqueue devices +[T] - Upgrade firmware in flash memory -[U] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ +[U] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ +[A] Ben Hutchings (current maintainer) [A] David Miller [A] Jakub Jelinek [A] Jeff Garzik -[M] The OpenSDE Community +[M] Christian Wiese [C] base/system @@ -34,5 +43,4 @@ [V] 2.6.36 [P] X -?---5---9 184.400 -[D] 3559859722 ethtool-2.6.36.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gkernel/ - +[D] 3559859722 ethtool-2.6.36.tar.gz http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/