From 8ec747f2ebbae6e2b6a38adb659167b5ce827018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Saravanan Balachandran
 <52521751+ArunSaravananBalachandran@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:13:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Dell S6100: Watchdog - Fix Python3 incompatibility (#6734)

To make watchdog.arm() method python3 compatible in DellEMC S6100.
---
 .../s6100/sonic_platform/watchdog.py                          | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/platform/broadcom/sonic-platform-modules-dell/s6100/sonic_platform/watchdog.py b/platform/broadcom/sonic-platform-modules-dell/s6100/sonic_platform/watchdog.py
index c6d5e6e2e9..0e5e102b7b 100644
--- a/platform/broadcom/sonic-platform-modules-dell/s6100/sonic_platform/watchdog.py
+++ b/platform/broadcom/sonic-platform-modules-dell/s6100/sonic_platform/watchdog.py
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ class Watchdog(WatchdogBase):
         if self.is_armed():
             gpio_val = self._read_gpio_file(gpio)
             high_val = gpio_val | (1 << 15)
-            if self._write_gpio_file(gpio, hex(high_val)) != -1:
+            if self._write_gpio_file(gpio, hex(high_val).encode('utf-8')) != -1:
                 low_val = high_val & 0xFFFF7FFF
-                if self._write_gpio_file(gpio, hex(low_val)) != -1:
+                if self._write_gpio_file(gpio, hex(low_val).encode('utf-8')) != -1:
                     self.armed_time = self._get_time()
                     self.timeout = seconds
                     return seconds