From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DCFC47093 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95773613AE for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232341AbhFBLW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2021 07:22:57 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52582 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232252AbhFBLWw (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2021 07:22:52 -0400 Received: from mailserv1.kapsi.fi (mailserv1.kapsi.fi [IPv6:2001:67c:1be8::25:1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66E56C061574; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:21:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ext.kapsi.fi; s=20161220; h=Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Sender: Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender :Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=pTMDdwyY3se7ek/n/DJtuBUdgsXKAqw0dSJWJKXqcA0=; b=PWMct+5rxQ4tyKOsNWCff+5qEc +Fs2+5OCkxwcFZExbJJBLvWwyGz0EJBJthz1WMB1c64OajSxVru0oFeTEOgTSUqT1h2gUOeqLJf1b p+2zyP268IhhYUAB6xYzVu4sn36ackNuhzkRuTPavrM47zu/2EDLpvEHrWNoTsV2TGp6b3jfa9Puc sOAq1p+T5s759lbYCcT+ymjUs6zQPr6GFgdbYfwgRM/s5/4sxCZbjnq+qGVKMisuyEuWD9UsP1n3z PwWCGUILjyPJzBFIeTDLV2hozBmK92NzDEjvxrLYVm83FoYR8xoJmNZU3lYR6YF5KNXBmh6rbuOje i+aMvFcw==; Received: from sein11.ut.ee ([193.40.12.11]:11475 helo=[172.17.163.37]) by mailserv1.kapsi.fi with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1loOvn-0008TD-SD; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:21:06 +0300 To: Linus Walleij Cc: Mauri Sandberg , Andy Shevchenko , Bartosz Golaszewski , Geert Uytterhoeven , "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" , Rob Herring , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , linux-kernel , Drew Fustini References: <20210325122832.119147-1-sandberg@mailfence.com> <20210530161333.3996-1-maukka@ext.kapsi.fi> <20210530161333.3996-2-maukka@ext.kapsi.fi> <866ff376-6d74-49c9-9e4c-2bf36bbd5981@ext.kapsi.fi> From: Mauri Sandberg Message-ID: <3548155a-e634-c433-7173-77b56180ed98@ext.kapsi.fi> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:21:02 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 193.40.12.11 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maukka@ext.kapsi.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: gpio-mux-input: add documentation X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:31 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mailserv1.kapsi.fi) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On 2.6.2021 13.35, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:31 AM Mauri Sandberg 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