Python versions below 3.7 do not correctly read the AUTHORS.rst file unless
the LC_CTYPE environment variable is set to UTF-8. This causes unit test
number 24:checkpatch - AUTHORS.rst existence to fail with
UnicodeDecodeError
Signed-off-by: Ivan Burnin <iburnin@k2.cloud>
---
utilities/checkpatch.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py
index 28d0977eb..52bb8196b 100755
--- a/utilities/checkpatch.py
+++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ def do_authors_exist(authors):
missing_authors = []
try:
- with open(get_top_directory() + "/AUTHORS.rst", "r") as file:
+ with open(get_top_directory() + "/AUTHORS.rst", "r",
encoding="utf-8") as file:
file_content = file.read()
for author in authors:
m = re.search(r'<(.*?)>', author)
--
2.49.0
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