[Lava-devel] device type alias redesign

Hi,

There is an idea of device type 'alias' in LAVA. I don't quite understand what the use case for the current implementation was [1]. I tried using it but it wasn't very useful. My use case is that I need to submit jobs to a device type with different device type name. This is used to align device type naming between different labs in a bigger project (kernelci.org in this case). So the questions I have about current implementation: - is there anyone using current implementation? - if current implementation is used, how much trouble would it cause to change the behaviour?

Change in behaviour is quite intrusive and will require database migration.

[1] https://master.lavasoftware.org/static/docs/v2/glossary.html#term-alias

Regards, milosz