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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:05:14 -0800
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] introduce: Multistate Switch Class
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:59:58PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2011, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> > For the next iteration, I'm considering the followings. It'd be much
> > appreciated if I could get some comments about those beforehand.
> >
> > 2. move the location from /drivers/misc to an independent location.
> > /drivers/switch? /drivers/multistate-switch? /drivers/msc?
> > /drivers/mswitch? ...
> 
> Moving out of drivers/misc is a good idea. I don't have a strong
> preference for any of the alternatives, but would probably pick
> drivers/mswitch. drivers/switch is too generic, since we have lots
> of things that are called a switch already, and drivers/multistate-switch
> is much longer than any of the other alternatives. "msc" in turn
> seems a bit too short and is not a well-established acronym yet.

It does not really limited to switches I think. Plug? Interconnect
(connector is already taken)? Link?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry