Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] usertools: decode PCI device name as UTF-8

[Christos Rikoudis <ricudis@niometrics.com>]

> On 13 Apr 2020, at 11:14 PM, Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/13/20 5:58 PM, Christos Ricudis wrote:
>> Fixes the case where a PCI device string identifier contains non-ASCII UTF-8.
>> 
>> A particular example is Mellanox Connext-X 5 EN MT27800:
>> 
>> 28:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5]
>>        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies ConnectX®-5 EN network interface card, 100GbE single-port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracket; MCX515A-CCAT
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christos Ricudis <ricudis@niometrics.com>
>> ---
>> usertools/dpdk-devbind.py | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
>> index b1d1498..8ec1703 100755
>> --- a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
>> +++ b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
>> @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ def get_device_details(devices_type):
>>             # Clear previous device's data
>>             dev = {}
>>         else:
>> -            name, value = dev_line.decode().split("\t", 1)
>> +            name, value = dev_line.decode("utf8").split("\t", 1)
>>             value_list = value.rsplit(' ', 1)
>>             if len(value_list) > 1:
>>                 # String stored in <name>_str
>> 
> 
> 
> Is similar fix required in line 214 as well?
> 
> name, value = line.decode('utf-8').split("\t", 1)

Apparently yes, though the above patch was enough to fix our usage of dpdk-devbind. 

Same string appears in output of lspci -vmmks. I will update the patch and resubmit. 

Thanks for your help!

$ lspci -vmmks 28:00.0
Slot:   28:00.0
Class:  Ethernet controller
Vendor: Mellanox Technologies
Device: MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5]
SVendor:        Mellanox Technologies
SDevice:        ConnectX®-5 EN network interface card, 100GbE single-port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracket; MCX515A-CCAT
PhySlot:        2
Driver: mlx5_core
Module: mlx5_core
NUMANode:       0

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