Re: [PATCH v12 3/4] soc: microchip: add mpfs gpio interrupt mux driver

From: Linus Walleij

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 09:39:23 EST


On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm guessing you're not looking for looking for me to be the arbiter,
> but I'd say that the muxing aspect is pretty important!
> On a serious note though, the lack of anything in the hardware to do
> masking etc is key, it'd have to be nothing more than a register that
> determines routing.
> That said, even the simplest mux should be an irqchip if reconfiguration
> after probe is to be supported.
> That'd make the delimiter "a simple mux that you set at probe and never
> touch again"?

This definition works for me, as maintainer I really want to be
able to determine how a contribution should look for each case.

Yours,
Linus Walleij