** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
- We don't want sosreport to possibly trigger kernel module to load.
- This is causing Bionic autopkgtest to fails on 4.15 series kernel.
+ We don't want sosreport to possibly trigger kernel module to load. It
+ might be the case depending on the running kernel configuration.
  
- 'simple.sh' will report a failure:
+ As a side note, this is also causing Bionic autopkgtest to fails as it
+ is tested w/ 4.15 series kernel by default. 'simple.sh' will report a
+ failure as follows:
+ 
  "new kernel modules loaded during execution"
  
  [Test case]
  
  On a 4.15 kernel (Bionic)
  
+ On a bare metal system:
  root@srv:~# lsmod | grep -i devlink
  root@srv:~# sos report -o networking
  root@srv:~# lsmod | grep -i devlink
  devlink 45056 0
  
  Not reproducible on Bionic w/ 5.4 kernel for instance
  
  Reason:
  config-4.15.0-140-generic:CONFIG_MAY_USE_DEVLINK=m
  config-5.4.0-70-generic:CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK=y
  
  CONFIG_MAY_USE_DEVLINK:
  Drivers using the devlink infrastructure should have a dependency on 
MAY_USE_DEVLINK to ensure they do not cause link errors when devlink is a 
loadable module and the driver using it is built-in.
  
  [Where problem could occur]
  
  [Other information]
  
  Upstream issues:
  https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/2468

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  [sos41][networking] May invoke devlink module when not loaded
  depending on how the kernel is configured

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