kernel-module-split.bbclass: Fix modinfo decoding in old kernels

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

(From OE-Core rev: 503b977acf6984120818cbc5cfd35ff2cffb39cd)

Signed-off-by: Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin@sysmocom.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pau Espin Pedrol
2018-12-31 01:04:50 +01:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent f07354a744
commit 48c0ed2aec

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@@ -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])