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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25/06/2026 11:32, Lad, Prabhakar wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM Linus Walleij 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. Best regards, Krzysztof