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

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev

Date: Mon Dec 22 2025 - 13:12:05 EST


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