diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool/avoid_parallel_tests.patch
index 69df8632f2..c3913c96e5 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 758fde7186730ee331a0ee6149276cd412766ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 4361d0a3eb421c797e2748b835d379d2a2b41949 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.
@@ -9,16 +9,15 @@ serial-tests is required to generate those targets.
 Signed-off-by: Tudor Florea <tudor.florea@enea.com>
 Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
 (default automake behavior incompatible with ptest)
-
 ---
  configure.ac | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index c871558..8ea1eaa 100644
+index e494aac..42dd40f 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT(ethtool, 6.7, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT(ethtool, 6.9, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
  AC_PREREQ(2.52)
  AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ethtool.c])
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.9.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.7.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.9.bb
index 33df0e0e80..1837b1ed1e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_6.9.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://avoid_parallel_tests.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ace0e95a03b38208af4ebacb415244568ace44c5d5a279ea434844f900179c75"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0011fb1b20101879f2d01d39cd2bc1d9646990d07d64de893415404a3afc53ef"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/"
 
