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

[Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>]

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)