Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) has been accepted itself as one of the distinguished and dominant routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). From various performance analysis and results, it is shown that DSR has been an outstanding routing protocol that outperforms consistently than any other routing protocols. But it could not pervade the same place when the performance was considered in term of energy consumption at each node, energy consumption of the networks, energy consumption per successful packet transmission, and energy consumption of node due to different overhead. Because, DSR protocol does not take energy as a parameter into account at all. And as MANET is highly sensible towards the power related issues and energy consumption as it is operated by the battery with the limited sources, needed to be used efficiently, so that the lie time o the network can be prolonged and performance can be enhanced. This paper presents a comprehensive summery of different energy efficient protocols that are based on the basic Mechanism of DSR and enlightens the effort and commitment that has been made since last 10 year to turn the traditional DSR as energy efficient routing protocol.