From 9103d554e061e4c26bf60446191e7584e27f73e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Johnson <jjohnson2@lenovo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:35:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Handle unicode DCMI data incoming

If unicode string data is submitted, pass
it along as utf-8 encoded bytes.

Change-Id: I00adc7aff4dcf06061a9fad69ed33cd784e7fe1b
---
 pyghmi/ipmi/command.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyghmi/ipmi/command.py b/pyghmi/ipmi/command.py
index 3ca7ab83..f43e0e1a 100644
--- a/pyghmi/ipmi/command.py
+++ b/pyghmi/ipmi/command.py
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ class Command(object):
         offset = 0
         for chunk in chunks:
             cmddata = bytearray((0xdc, offset, len(chunk)))
-            cmddata += chunk
+            cmddata += bytearray(chunk, 'utf-8')
             self.xraw_command(netfn=0x2c, command=command, data=cmddata)
 
     def set_channel_access(self, channel=None,