Re: [PATCH] arm64: enable HAVE_SHARED_GPIOS for all ARM64 platforms

From: Linus Walleij

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 17:17:53 EST


On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM Bartosz Golaszewski
<bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That sounds reasonable.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij