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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: gpio-mux-input: add documentation
Hi Linus,

On 2.6.2021 13.35, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:31 AM Mauri Sandberg <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi> wrote:
>
>> But there is a small detail that needs to be sorted out.
>> The name 'gpio-mux'
>> has already been taken by 'mux-gpio' driver [2] [3].
>
> What about "gpio-multiplexer"?
>
> It is not good that the thing using GPIOs to do multiplexing
> has take a name that seem to infer that GPIOs are being
> multiplexed. Now we can't do much about that we just have
> to live with it. How typical of formal languages to screw
> with the semantics of natural languages and create confusion...
>

I am afraid having 'gpio-mux' and 'gpio-multiplexer' would create too
many what-were-they-thinking moments for any unfortunate reader so I
would rather choose something else. Can we just call it 'gpio-cascade'
without referral to the underlying mux? Maybe at somepoint in future
something else could be used in its place too.

-- Mauri

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