diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd5332561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/sha256sums.asc
+sha256	d6e0dd3fa904c3ad87487c66a4a8fde1ebc4194979ca5755df4b2efb247ca286	ethtool-3.16.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
index 3d8d3cd0a..45c4735bd 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ETHTOOL_VERSION = 3.15
+ETHTOOL_VERSION = 3.16
 ETHTOOL_SOURCE = ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ETHTOOL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/network/ethtool
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE = GPLv2