From 8452759060ad46fc071a7d5bbf1647df5ea2ceab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] e1000e: store EEPROM version number to prevent unnecessary
 NVM reads

Rather than reading the NVM to get the EEPROM version number everytime the
ethool get_drvinfo function is called, read it once during probe and save
it for future reference.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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