asynPortDriver nDevices?

[Heinz Junkes via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

I am a little confused about the use of asynPortDriver().

I have a VMEbus system with 4 Highland arbitrary waveform generators ( 1x V346, 3 x V344).
Each of these cards holds 8 channels.

Therefore I call asynPortDriver with 4 (nCards) * 8 (NUM_CHANNELS) (= 32) addresses:

AwgPort::AwgPort(const char *portName, epicsUInt16 a, epicsUInt16 nrCards)
    :asynPortDriver(portName, nrCards * NUM_CHANNELS,// NUM_PARAMS,
            asynInt32Mask | asynInt16ArrayMask | asynInt32ArrayMask | asynFloat64Mask | asynFloat64ArrayMask | asynOctetMask | asynDrvUserMask,
            asynInt32Mask | asynInt16ArrayMask | asynInt32ArrayMask | asynFloat64Mask | asynFloat64ArrayMask,
                    ASYN_MULTIDEVICE,
                    1, // autoconnect
                    0, // prio
                    0)

"Somehow" everything looks good too.
I'm just confused that with the asynReport I always get displayed "8"  as nDevices:

tIocSh> asynReport 1,awgport
awgport multiDevice:Yes canBlock:No autoConnect:Yes
    enabled:Yes connected:Yes numberConnects 1
    nDevices 8 nQueued 0 blocked:No
    asynManagerLock:No synchronousLock:No
    exceptionActive:No exceptionUsers 1 exceptionNotifys 0
    traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 0 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected Yes exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 1 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 2 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 3 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 4 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 5 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 6 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
    addr 7 autoConnect Yes enabled Yes connected No exceptionActive No
        exceptionActive No exceptionUsers 0 exceptionNotifys 0
        blocked No
        traceMask:0x1 traceIOMask:0x0 traceInfoMask:0x1
Port: awgport

Danke Heinz

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