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am1808 pinmux to GPIO IN pin isn't necessary?

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We use am1808 on a board. 

A button is connected to GP6[7] with IN direction.

On AM1808, PINMUX14[0-3] selects:
VPIF_CLKIN0 UHPI_HCS PRU1_R30[10] GP6[7] UPP_2xTXCLK

So we should configure PINMUX14[0-3]=0x8 to let the pin be GP6[7].
But I found that the button still can work even if PINMUX14[0-3]=0x0.

Why doesn't the pinmux filter out the GP6[7] input signal?

As a comparison, I pinmux another GPIO pin with OUT direction (eg. GP6[3] controls a led), the pinmux can filter out the GPIO output signal if the pinmux doesn't select that GPIO pin.

Could someone explain in simple words?

Thanks,

Robert