Otherwise, the gpiolib autorequest feature will produce a WARN_ON():

WARNING: at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:101 0x8020ec6c()
autorequest GPIO-215
[...]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>