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gpio: Mention GPIO MUX in docs

There is now a GPIO multiplexer, so mention this in the document
about drivers using GPIO as backend.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

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Linus Walleij and committed by
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Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
··· 96 96 way to pass the charging parameters from hardware descriptions such as the 97 97 device tree. 98 98 99 + - gpio-mux: drivers/mux/gpio.c is used for controlling a multiplexer using 100 + n GPIO lines such that you can mux in 2^n different devices by activating 101 + different GPIO lines. Often the GPIOs are on a SoC and the devices are 102 + some SoC-external entities, such as different components on a PCB that 103 + can be selectively enabled. 104 + 99 105 Apart from this there are special GPIO drivers in subsystems like MMC/SD to 100 106 read card detect and write protect GPIO lines, and in the TTY serial subsystem 101 107 to emulate MCTRL (modem control) signals CTS/RTS by using two GPIO lines. The