Re: [PATCH] kobject: fix suppressing modalias in uevents delivered over netlink

[Casey Leedom]

  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 <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    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