linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] dma-mapping fix for Linux 6.19

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Message-ID: <20251222-tricky-cockle-of-economy-61906d@lemur>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:12:02 -0500
From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux.dev, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, 
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dma-mapping fix for Linux 6.19

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 10:03:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>    remote: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
> '\u2011' in position 90: ordinal not in range(128)

Ah, yes, everyone's least favourite Python error message.

> and I wonder if that's why I also haven't seen a pr-tracker-bot reply
> to your email yet (but it might also be that I'm just too quick to
> blame things, and it's just delayed a bit).
> 
> Konstantin - I think it's only the subject line that matters here,
> because if it reacted to non-ASCII characters in commit messages, I'd
> have seen this issue many times before. I'll send you the whole
> traceback separately, although I suspect you can easily just re-create
> this issue locally.

It shouldn't be necessary, but won't hurt.

Thanks,
-K