Public bug reported:

SRU Justification:

Impact: in order to properly support infiniband for Azure A8/A9,
H-series, and NC24/NV24 instances, multiple versions of the driver must
be maintained and userspace must be responsible for selecting the
correct version of the driver.

That's already supported in the linux-azure kernel with the userspace
logic implemented in the Windows Azure Linux Agent. The Xenial kernel is
carrying a single version of the RDMA which might cause problems if the
host OS requires a different version of the driver.

Fix: remove the driver located at "drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/"
from the Xenial kernel and keep support to it only in linux-azure.

Testcase: the module "hv_network_direct.ko" should not be include in the
linux-image or linux-image-extra packages.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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