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>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
for line in extra_info:
if len(line) == 0:
continue
- name, value = line.decode().split("\t", 1)
+ name, value = line.decode("utf8").split("\t", 1)
name = name.strip(":") + "_str"
device[name] = value
# check for a unix interface name
# 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