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Add a generic pinctrl binding for board-level pinmux chips that are controlled through the multiplexer subsystem. On some boards, especially development boards, external mux chips are used to switch SoC signals between different peripherals (e.g. MMC and UART). The mux select lines are often driven by a GPIO expander over I2C, as illustrated below: ┌──────┐ ┌─────┐ │ SOC │ │ │ ┌───────┐ │ │ │ │───►│ MMC │ │ │ │ MUX │ └───────┘ │ ├─────►│ │ ┌───────┐ │ │ │ │───►│ UART │ │ │ └─────┘ └───────┘ │ │ ▲ │ │ ┌────┴──────────────┐ │ I2C ├───►│ GPIO Expander │ └──────┘ └───────────────────┘ Traditionally, gpio-hog is used to configure the onboard mux at boot. However, the GPIO expander may probe later than consumer devices such as MMC. As a result, the MUX might not be configured when the peripheral driver probes, leading to initialization failures or data transfer errors. Introduce a generic pinctrl binding that models the board-level MUX as a pin control provider and builds proper device links between the MUX, its GPIO controller, and peripheral devices. This ensures correct probe ordering and reliable mux configuration. The implementation leverages the standard multiplexer subsystem, which provides broad support for onboard mux controllers and avoids the need for per-driver custom MUX handling. Allow pinctrl-* pattern as node name because this pinctrl device have not reg property. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>