[PATCH v2 1/4] aiodev: Name channels with device instance name

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> When dynamically assigning device names, an aiodev's name will be
> "aiodev" and an index, not part of the name string itself, will be
> allocated dynamically.  These are combined to register a device with a
> name like "aiodev0" or "aiodev1".
> 
> The shell environment variables use the device name, so one might use
> "${aiodev0.in_value0_mV}" and "${aiodev1.in_value0_mV}".
> 
> However, the channel names that are used with aiochannel_get_by_name()
> just use the aiodev's name and channel name.  So channel 0 of the 1st
> aiodev would be "aiodev.in_value0_mV" and the 2nd aiodev would use the
> same name.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Rename aiochannel_get_by_name() to aiochannel_by_name() so that any out
> of tree boards that use it will fail to compile, since they now need to
> pass in a different name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <trent.piepho at synapse.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   * Rename aiochannel_get_by_name()

Applied all, thanks

Sascha

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