vNIC driver missing in 4.8 kernel package

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-09-27 12:18 EDT-------
Canonical,

It seems that CONFIG_IBMVNIC is not enabled in 4.8 kernel. Take a look:

$ cat config-4.8.0-17-generic | grep IBMVNIC
# CONFIG_IBMVNIC is not set

This changed from 4.4:

$ cat config-4.6.0-6-generic | grep IBMVNIC
CONFIG_IBMVNIC=m

We need that enabled, otherwise it brekas Ubuntu on guests very hard.

I've pushed this fix to the tip of yakkety master-next. I also added an enforcement to our annotations file to ensure this doesn't get disabled moving forward. Thanks.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-09-28 14:20 EDT-------
Hello Leann,

> I've pushed this fix to the tip of yakkety master-next. I also added an
> enforcement to our annotations file to ensure this doesn't get disabled
> moving forward. Thanks.

Great. Thank you!

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-09-30 02:43 EDT-------
Hi,

Could someone tell us when we can get kernel which has vnic driver?

Thanks!

Watch for Ubuntu-4.8.0-19.21 which should get promoted to proposed by Monday.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-10-04 09:39 EDT-------
Tim,

> Watch for Ubuntu-4.8.0-19.21 which should get promoted to proposed by Monday.

I do not see kernel .21, but 4.8.0.19.28. I suppose it contains the fix already, right?

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.8.0-19.21

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linux (4.8.0-19.21) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1629057

  * 4.8.0 kernels do not complete boot process on VM (LP: #1627198)
    - [Config] CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN=n

  * mount-image-callback cannot mount partitioned disk image (LP: #1628336)
    - SAUCE: nbd: Only delay uevent until connected

  * Support snaps inside of lxd containers (LP: #1611078)
    - apparmor: add interface to be able to grab loaded policy
    - securityfs: update interface to allow inode_ops, and setup from vfs fns
    - apparmor: refactor aa_prepare_ns into prepare_ns and create_ns routines
    - apparmor: add __aa_find_ns fn
    - apparmor: add mkdir/rmdir interface to manage policy namespaces
    - apparmor: fix oops in pivot_root mediation
    - apparmor: fix warning that fn build_pivotroot discards const
    - apparmor: add interface to advertise status of current task stacking
    - apparmor: update policy permissions to consider ns being viewed/managed
    - apparmor: add per ns policy management interface
    - apparmor: bump domain stacking version to 1.2

  * linux-image-extra-4.8.0-17-generic does not provide many sound card modules
    (LP: #1628523)
    - [Config] CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y for generic

  * Yakkety - disable ARCH_ZX (LP: #1628503)
    - [Config] armhf: disable ARCH_ZX

  * Enable switchdev config parameter for Yakkety (LP: #1628241)
    - [Config] CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV=y for amd64/arm64

  * Ubuntu 16.10 kernel v4.8: Installation failing on Habanero with Shiner card
    (LP: #1628009)
    - firmware: Update bnx2x to 7.13.1.0

  * vNIC driver missing in 4.8 kernel package (LP: #1628187)
    - [Config] Enable CONFIG_IBMVNIC=m

  * Yakkety - armhf: MFD_TPS65217 and REGULATOR_TPS65217 are boot essential
    (LP: #1628112)
    - [Config] armhf: MFD_TPS65217=y && REGULATOR_TPS65217=y

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - Rebase to v4.8-rc8
    - [Config] skip Ubuntu-4.8.0-18.20
    - [Config] missing modules in armhf/s390x

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - rebase to v4.8-rc8

 -- Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:13:35 -0700