[nycbug-talk] Intel EM/IGB Version question

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:34:57 pm Mark Saad wrote:
> Talk
>  I am looking into upgrading the em and igb driver used in FreeBSD
> 9.1-RELEASE . I want to investigate an issue at work, and I want to
> see how igb 2.3.8 works vs the stock one. This lead me to discover a
> good question.  Is there any way to tell the version of a driver, from
> userland in FreeBSD ?  In particular how can I tell which version of
> the em and igb driver I am using ? I can see from the detailed release
> notes that 9.1-RELEASE has Igb version 2.3.4 and em version 7.3.2 but
> other then that is there a way ?

They print the version number out in dmesg during boot, e.g.:

igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.3.10> port 0xe880-0xe89f
 mem 0xfbe60000-0xfbe7ffff,0xfbe40000-0xfbe5ffff,0xfbeb8000-0xfbebbfff irq 32 at
 device 0.0 on pci5

You can also look for the relevant string in the sources:

% grep 'driver_version\[' /sys/dev/e1000/*
/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c:char em_driver_version[] = "7.3.8";
/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c:char igb_driver_version[] = "version - 2.3.10";
/sys/dev/e1000/if_lem.c:char lem_driver_version[] = "1.0.6";

-- 
John Baldwin