** Description changed:

  [IMPACT]
  
  sosreport networking plugin unconditionally exercise 'ethtool -e.
  
  EEPROM dump collection might hang on specific types of devices,
  
  ETHTOOL(8)
         -e --eeprom-dump
                Retrieves and prints an EEPROM dump for the specified network 
device.  When raw is enabled,  then  it dumps  the raw EEPROM data to stdout. 
The length and offset parameters allow dumping certain portions of the EEPROM.  
Default is to dump the entire EEPROM.
  
  [TEST PLAN]
  
  * On a xenial system
  
  ## Should not execute 'ethtool -e' (Default behaviour)
  * sosreport -o networking
  
  ## Should execute 'ethtool -e'. (Only if sosreport is instructed to do so)
  * sosreport -o networking --plugin-option networking.eepromdump
  
  [WHERE PROBLEM OCCURS]
  
  No problem expected.
  
  networking plugin will be gated to prevent 'ethtool -e' to be run by
  default, so that
  
  sosreport -o networking will not execute 'ethtool -e' command.
  On the other end, if one really want to eepromdump, one can use the 
'eepromdump' plugin option as follows:
  
  sosreport -o networking --plugin-option networking.eepromdump
  
  So we are changing the default behaviour, but the former one is still
  available if *REALLY* needed, and knowing the risk that this can occur.
  
  sosreport -a ## Will still execute 'ethtool -e' as it turns all option
  to 'True'.
  
-        -a, --alloptions
-               Set all boolean options to True for all enabled plug-ins.
+        -a, --alloptions
+               Set all boolean options to True for all enabled plug-ins.
  
  Unless one specify the following in /etc/sos.conf:
  ---
- [plugin_options]
+ [tunables]
  networking.eepromdump = off
  ---
  
  [OTHER INFORMATION]
  
  Upstream fix:
  
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/bc3b7eefa093af150286ad6c345cef6afe282756

** Tags added: serg sts

** Tags removed: serg
** Tags added: seg

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  [networking] dpdk port flapping observed during sosreport execution

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