From 47f412bf150f445c64e917d9d8ce259043013fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Angebault <staphylo@arista.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:09:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve robustness of consutil plugin loading (#1353)

The configuration file does not tolerate a new line.
Enhance the plugin loading by allowing trailing chars.

Signed-off-by: Jing Kan jika@microsoft.com
---
 consutil/lib.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/consutil/lib.py b/consutil/lib.py
index 0172ac5644c5..d1aee008dfd3 100644
--- a/consutil/lib.py
+++ b/consutil/lib.py
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ def init_device_prefix():
 
         if os.path.exists(PLUGIN_PATH):
             fp = open(PLUGIN_PATH, 'r')
-            line = fp.readlines()
-            SysInfoProvider.DEVICE_PREFIX = "/dev/" + line[0]
+            lines = fp.readlines()
+            SysInfoProvider.DEVICE_PREFIX = "/dev/" + lines[0].rstrip()
 
     @staticmethod
     def list_console_ttys():