diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch
index 5e9024834c..66d7e6bef6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 08f887f4bc65684397bf8ec30cc61d91d894deac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 3f5b775fea706538a2e8fa7768c0de1bca2c090e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Tudor Florea <tudor.florea@enea.com>
 Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:59:54 +0200
 Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: use serial-tests config needed by ptest.
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index c1e0012..c460398 100644
+index 292eae3..dcfc106 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
- AC_INIT(ethtool, 6.3, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT(ethtool, 6.4, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
  AC_PREREQ(2.52)
+ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ethtool.c])
 -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnu subdir-objects])
 +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnu subdir-objects serial-tests])
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.4.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.3.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.4.bb
index 504e645966..fe3012088c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.4.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://avoid_parallel_tests.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "342d37d3fe19da79d0276c4c69c34c61f1ad8f87b06514d664bf1eeb29bfd525"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fb8265c3ebbfd6929ea1dd38a9e2e5fd4416c7443d6a0f9d474d9fde89014588"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/"
 
