From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:17:18 +0200 > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:15:48AM -0700, Qing Huang wrote: >> The FW version is actually a very crucial piece of information and only >> printed once here >> when the driver is loaded. People tend to get confused when switching >> multiple FW files >> back and forth without running separate utility tools, especially at >> customer sites. >> IMHO, this information is very useful and only takes up very little log file >> space. :-) > > Why not use ethtool -i ? > > $ sudo ethtool -i eth0 > driver: r8169 > version: 2.3LK-NAPI > firmware-version: rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 +1
