diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/board.txt b/Documentation/gpio/board.txt
index 86d3fa95fd12..40884c4fe40c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpio/board.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gpio/board.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ gpio-legacy.txt (actually, there is no real mapping possible with the old
 interface; you just fetch an integer from somewhere and request the
 corresponding GPIO.
 
-Platforms that make use of GPIOs must select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB (if GPIO usage
-is mandatory) or ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB (if GPIO support can be omitted) in
-their Kconfig. Then, how GPIOs are mapped depends on what the platform uses to
+All platforms can enable the GPIO library, but if the platform strictly
+requires GPIO functionality to be present, it needs to select GPIOLIB from its
+Kconfig. Then, how GPIOs are mapped depends on what the platform uses to
 describe its hardware layout. Currently, mappings can be defined through device
 tree, ACPI, and platform data.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt b/Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt
index 79ab5648d69b..b34fd94f7089 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ in this document, but drivers acting as clients to the GPIO interface must
 not care how it's implemented.)
 
 That said, if the convention is supported on their platform, drivers should
-use it when possible.  Platforms must select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB or
-ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB in their Kconfig.  Drivers that can't work without
+use it when possible.  Platforms must select GPIOLIB if GPIO functionality
+is strictly required.  Drivers that can't work without
 standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries which depend on GPIOLIB.  The
 GPIO calls are available, either as "real code" or as optimized-away stubs,
 when drivers use the include file:
@@ -553,22 +553,14 @@ either NULL or the label associated with that GPIO when it was requested.
 
 Platform Support
 ----------------
-To support this framework, a platform's Kconfig will "select" either
-ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB or ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
-and arrange that its <asm/gpio.h> includes <asm-generic/gpio.h> and defines
-three functions: gpio_get_value(), gpio_set_value(), and gpio_cansleep().
+To force-enable this framework, a platform's Kconfig will "select" GPIOLIB,
+else it is up to the user to configure support for GPIO.
 
 It may also provide a custom value for ARCH_NR_GPIOS, so that it better
 reflects the number of GPIOs in actual use on that platform, without
 wasting static table space.  (It should count both built-in/SoC GPIOs and
 also ones on GPIO expanders.
 
-ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB means that the gpiolib code will always get compiled
-into the kernel on that architecture.
-
-ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB means the gpiolib code defaults to off and the user
-can enable it and build it into the kernel optionally.
-
 If neither of these options are selected, the platform does not support
 GPIOs through GPIO-lib and the code cannot be enabled by the user.
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
index a68d83808f37..711995e39cf9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
@@ -10,27 +10,6 @@ config ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
 	  overriding the default implementations.  New uses of this are
 	  strongly discouraged.
 
-config ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
-	bool
-	help
-	  Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if
-	  it is possible to use gpiolib on the architecture, but let the
-	  user decide whether to actually build it or not.
-	  Select this instead of ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB, if your architecture does
-	  not depend on GPIOs being available, but rather let the user
-	  decide whether he needs it or not.
-
-config ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB
-	bool
-	select GPIOLIB
-	help
-	  Platforms select gpiolib if they use this infrastructure
-	  for all their GPIOs, usually starting with ones integrated
-	  into SOC processors.
-	  Selecting this from the architecture code will cause the gpiolib
-	  code to always get built in.
-
-
 menuconfig GPIOLIB
 	bool "GPIO Support"
 	help
