[PATCH] arm64: enable HAVE_SHARED_GPIOS for all ARM64 platforms

Linus Walleij linusw at kernel.org
Mon Sep 14 14:17:20 PDT 2026


On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM Bartosz Golaszewski
<bartosz.golaszewski at oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:

> Shared GPIO management provided by the GPIO shared proxy module has been
> enabled for Qualcomm platforms for some time. By extension of the
> defconfig, it's been effectively enabled for all ARM64 platforms when
> using the default configuration. Bugs discovered initially after the
> feature was first enabled, were fixed and I haven't seen any new reports
> for several months. Make the feature enabled by default for all ARM64
> platforms officially, which will allow us to continue the removal of the
> deprecated GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_NONEXCLUSIVE flag from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at oss.qualcomm.com>

That sounds reasonable.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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