[PATCH 1/4] aiodev: Name channels with device instance name

[Trent Piepho]

> > On 9/9/20 9:36 PM, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > Change the channel naming to use the device instance name, e.g.
> > "aiodev0", rather than the aiodev's base name.  This makes the names
> > used aiochannel_get_by_name() match the environment variable names and
> > also avoids duplicate names with more than one dynamically allocated
> > aiodev.
>
> sounds good, but that would silently break existing users, wouldn't i?
> There are none in-tree, but I assume there are some in external patch
> stacks, otherwise the function would've not been added.
>
> These patch stacks would rebase cleanly and build successfully, but
> still be runtime broken. Would it makes sense to rename
> aiochannel_get_by_name() because the API changed?

Assuming they used dynamic names for the devices.  So probably.

I can rename it to aiochannel_by_name().  There are number of other
functions in barebox that follow that pattern.