barebox state alias with same name as node doesn't work

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

Hi,

All the examples of "barebox,state" compatible nodes I can find in 
Barebox seem to follow this basic pattern:

/ {
   /* ... */
   aliases {
     /* ... */
     state = &state;
   };
   /* ... */
   state: state {
     magic = <0xdeadbeef>; /* or whatever */
     compatible = "barebox,state";
     /* ... */
   };
   /* ... */
};

Note that the alias name is the same as the node name in the above example.

However, when I try to follow that pattern for my own board, I get an 
error (-EINVAL):

ERROR: register_device: already registered state

This is because the node "state" has been already registered as a device 
called "state" by of_platform_device_create() (via of_probe() and 
of_arm_init()).  Later, the state device driver is initialized and 
state_probe() is called on the device that was previously registered. 
state_probe() calls state_new_from_node() which calls of_alias_get() to 
get the name of the alias for this device (the alias is also called 
"state" in this example), and calls state_new() with this alias name. 
state_new() allocates a struct state with an embedded struct device_d, 
sets the device name to the alias name it was called with ("state"), and 
calls register_device() to register this embedded struct device_d.  The 
call to register_device() fails with return value -EINVAL because the 
name is not unique.

I'm wondering if this has ever worked or whether there is a regression 
bug.  I fixed it on my board by renaming node to "state_nor", keeping 
the alias name as "state".

I'm currently using Barebox 2018.12.0, but I don't see any relevant 
changes in Barebox 2019.01.0 or barebox-next.

Best regards,
Ian Abbott.

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