By the way, Komali just reported another bug internally where
instantiating an SR-IOV Virtual Function causes cxgb4vf to be automatically
loaded, which is normal behavior. But then when she attempts to unload
cxgb4vf, it simply gets reloaded again. This is with:
[root@t5nic linux]# git show
commit 1291a0d5049dbc06baaaf66a9ff3f53db493b19b
Author: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Dec 17 18:59:59 2017 -0800
Linux 4.15-rc4
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3f4d157..7e02f95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
VERSION = 4
PATCHLEVEL = 15
SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
+EXTRAVERSION = -rc4
NAME = Fearless Coyote
...
The patch you provided last Wednesday _does_ solve this new problem, but
doesn't solve the problem that she originally reported. Let me know if
you'd like to see the udevadm output for 4.15-rc4 prior to applying your
patch.
Casey
