Hi Linus,

On 2.6.2021 13.35, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:31 AM Mauri Sandberg [off-list ref] wrote:

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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