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

    Andrew