Hi,

+/**
+ * device_get_child_node_count_named - number of child nodes with given name
+ *
+ * Scan device's child nodes and find all the nodes with a specific name and
+ * return the number of found nodes. Potential '@number' -ending for scanned
+ * names is ignored. Eg,
+ * device_get_child_node_count(dev, "channel");
+ * would match all the nodes:
+ * channel { }, channel@0 {}, channel@0xabba {}...
+ *
+ * @dev: Device to count the child nodes for
+ *
+ * Return: the number of child nodes with a matching name for a given device.
+ */
+unsigned int device_get_child_node_count_named(const struct device *dev,
+					       const char *name)
+{
+	struct fwnode_handle *child;
+	unsigned int count = 0;
+
+	device_for_each_child_node(dev, child)
+		if (fwnode_name_eq(child, "channel"))

s/"channel"/name/ ?

+			count++;
+
+	return count;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_get_child_node_count_named);

I did not check how many users are you proposing for this, but if
there's only one, then IMO this should not be a global function yet.
It just feels to special case to me. But let's see what the others
think.

thanks,

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heikki