[PATCH] arm64: enable HAVE_SHARED_GPIOS for all ARM64 platforms

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Sep 23 07:16:36 PDT 2026


On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 04:50:34PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski 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>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig           | 1 +
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Since it touches more lines in Kconfig.platforms (2 vs 1), I'd leave
this to the arm-soc people to merge (I also got a minor conflict in
Kconfig.platforms).

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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