Re: [PATCH v2] mux: gpio-mux: add support for 4:1 2-channels mux

From: Lad, Prabhakar

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 10:16:20 EST


Hi Alvin and Antoniu,

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM Alvin Šipraga <alvin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 10:02:21AM +0000, Miclaus, Antoniu wrote:
> > Hi Michael, Linus,
> >
> > > On 6/29/26 21:27, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 11:18 AM Nuno Sá <noname.nuno@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 12:11:28AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > >>> That mail bounced, OK let's page some other analog people
> > > >>> because I think they like and use this subsystem so maybe one
> > > >>> of them want to step up and maintain drivers/mux?
> > > >> Yeah, Mircea is not on ADI for a long time. Let me see this internally.
> > > >> Not that long (some months), Peter did participated in a review for
> > > >> something Antoniu was sending IIRC but looks like he's silent for too
> > > >> long now...
> > > > Apparently Renesas has stepped up to maintain drivers/mux
> > > > but given there are two ADI drivers there, maybe you want to
> > > > add a co-maintainer.
> > > >
> > > > Yours,
> > > > Linus Walleij
> > >
> > > Hi Linus,
> > >
> > > Thanks for bringing this up.
> > >
> > > Analog Devices is happy to help co-maintain the mux framework. We do
> > > have users of the subsystem and a couple of drivers in the tree, so it
> > > makes sense for us to contribute on the maintenance side as well.
> > >
> > > Antoniu Miclaus and Alvin Sipraga are both active in upstream kernel
> > > development and can step in as co-maintainers from the ADI side.
> > >
> > > Antoniu and Alvin, could you please chime in and confirm your interest?
> >
> > I'm happy to help co-maintain the mux framework. Confirming my interest.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Antoniu
>
> Happy to help too :-)
>
> Adding Prabhakar to the thread, as he's already sent a MAINTAINERS
> patch [1], but it doesn't look like it's been picked up yet.
>
> Prabhakar, do you want to send a v3 with Antoniu and myself, or do you
> prefer for me to do it? I have to update the MAINTAINERS file anyway,
> since I've recently changed company and my old email there doesn't work
> anymore.
>
Thanks for the help!

I can definitely spin up a v3 and include both of you.

Cheers,
Prabhakar

> If you do it, please use: Alvin Šipraga <alvin.sipraga@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260625121837.8359-1-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Kind regards,
> Alvin