On 27 Apr 2019, at 10:31, Milosz Wasilewski <milosz.wasilewski@linaro.org> wrote:

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 20:43, Dan Rue <dan.rue@linaro.org> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 03:55:22PM +0000, Milosz Wasilewski wrote:
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?

To my knowledge, nobody is using it. As it is implemented it’s not very useful.

- 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

+1 for this feature to be re-implemented. I have boards I cannot add to
kernelci until this feature is available.

+1 from me. Solves a lot of the submission issues we’ve seen in the past. Having to create new device types based on how you want to use it.

I looked in the lava issue tracker - is there any ticket representing
this work anywhere?

I don't think I created a ticket. There is a PR though:
https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/merge_requests/495
It's almost ready IMHO. I didn't update the docs yet but all other
bits should work fine. If someone could pull it and test it it would
be much appreciated.

milosz

Thanks,
Dan

Regards,
milosz

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