From 3737c13784d0ea7d5a3db42c1c8d85308212265d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Barker <pbarker@barker.dropbear.id.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:16:09 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] autotest: allow message rates to be set by message name, not
 just ID

Simply for convenience.
---
 Tools/autotest/common.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Tools/autotest/common.py b/Tools/autotest/common.py
index 9f4221bbb5..fdc0c20c23 100644
--- a/Tools/autotest/common.py
+++ b/Tools/autotest/common.py
@@ -5130,6 +5130,8 @@ class AutoTest(ABC):
 
     def set_message_rate_hz(self, id, rate_hz):
         '''set a message rate in Hz; 0 for original, -1 to disable'''
+        if type(id) == str:
+            id = eval("mavutil.mavlink.MAVLINK_MSG_ID_%s" % id)
         if rate_hz == 0 or rate_hz == -1:
             set_interval = rate_hz
         else: