From: Pau Espin Pedrol <[email protected]>
Before linux commit d36b691077dc59c74efec0d54ed21b86f7a2a21a, some
strings contained invalid utf-8 character which made
split_kernel_module_packages unhappy when parsing ums-isd200.ko:
Exception: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position
21: invalid start byte
---
meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
b/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
index 67ab4161da..e8996cf59b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ python split_kernel_module_packages () {
tmpfile = tf[1]
cmd = "%sobjcopy -j .modinfo -O binary %s %s" %
(d.getVar("HOST_PREFIX") or "", file, tmpfile)
subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
- f = open(tmpfile)
+ # errors='replace': Some old kernel versions contain invalid utf-8
characters in mod descriptions (like 0xf6, 'ö')
+ f = open(tmpfile, errors='replace')
l = f.read().split("\000")
f.close()
os.close(tf[0])
--
2.20.0
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