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

["Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:44 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 25/06/2026 11:32, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> Mircea from Analog Devices contributed two important drivers for
> >> drivers/mux in committ
> >> 8b9ce6954c05e3e4115f54444c7eaf2aa2dd5e65.
> >>
> >> Perhaps Analog Devices are interested in picking up and
> >> maintaining drivers/mux?
> >>
> >> Mircea what do you say?
> >>
> >> Can you bring it up with your organization?
> >
> > Hi Linus, Krzysztof, All,
> >
> > While Linus mentioned Analog Devices, we at Renesas would be glad to
> > step up here.
> >
> > I have discussed this internally, and Renesas is willing to dedicate
> > the necessary engineering time to take over the active maintainership
> > of drivers/mux. I am happy to act as the maintainer to review incoming
> > patches, handle testing, and keep the subsystem moving forward so it
>
> Great to hear! I appreciate. The initial pushback was a bit confusing.
>
> > doesn't stall out. If the community is on board with this, I can send
> > a patch updating the MAINTAINERS file to make it official.
>
> Awesome, please do so. Put on CC existing maintainer (Peter), Greg and
> me, change to "Maintained" (or Supported, up to you). Once you review
> and collect the patches, make your tree part of Linux next and then
> closer to RC5-RC6, send them as patches or pull request to Greg (Greg,
> please correct me if anything here is inaccurate).
>
> I recommend also slides from my talk from LPC 2023 - Beginner's Linux
> kernel maintainer toolbox. If all this is obvious to you, then of course
> apologies for lecturing.
>
Thanks for the guidance and the pointer to your LPC talk definitely
not a lecture, I appreciate the resource and will take a look. I will
put together the MAINTAINERS patch shortly, changing the status to
"Maintained", and make sure Peter, Greg, and you are CC'd.

Cheers,
Prabhakar