Re: [REGRESSION] changes to driver_override parsing broke DPDK script

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

[+cc regressions list]

23d99baf9d72 appeared in v5.19-rc1.

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 11:29:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This commit broke the driver override script in DPDK.
> This is an API/ABI breakage, please revert or fix the commit.
> 
> Report of problem:
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-August/247794.html
> 
> 
> commit 23d99baf9d729ca30b2fb6798a7b403a37bfb800
> Author: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> Date:   Tue Apr 19 13:34:28 2022 +0200
> 
>     PCI: Use driver_set_override() instead of open-coding
>     
>     Use a helper to set driver_override to the reduce amount of duplicated
>     code.  Make the driver_override field const char, because it is not
>     modified by the core and it matches other subsystems.
>     
>     Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
>     Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
>     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419113435.246203-6-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> 
> The script is sending single nul character to remove override
> and that no longer works.
> 
> Source code to dpdk-devbind
> https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/main/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py