diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/ste,nomadik.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/ste,nomadik.txt
index f63fcb3ed35288c880b832de582867b969e7a7e0..2213802435e00da9be96ae94c3cdad69756f7974 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/ste,nomadik.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/ste,nomadik.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ ST Ericsson Nomadik pinmux controller
 Required properties:
 - compatible: "stericsson,db8500-pinctrl", "stericsson,db8540-pinctrl",
               "stericsson,stn8815-pinctrl"
-- reg: Should contain the register physical address and length of the PRCMU.
+- nomadik-gpio-chips: array of phandles to the corresponding GPIO chips
+              (these have the register ranges used by the pin controller).
+- prcm: phandle to the PRCMU managing the back end of this pin controller
 
 Please refer to pinctrl-bindings.txt in this directory for details of the
 common pinctrl bindings used by client devices, including the meaning of the
@@ -74,7 +76,8 @@ Example board file extract:
 
 	pinctrl@80157000 {
 		compatible = "stericsson,db8500-pinctrl";
-		reg = <0x80157000 0x2000>;
+		nomadik-gpio-chips = <&gpio0>, <&gpio1>, <&gpio2>, <&gpio3>;
+		prcm = <&prcmu>;
 
 		pinctrl-names = "default";
 
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c b/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c
index 7b1160def28520d69bc46e51e3966eaa986abaea..143d1c06078c920a6fd8c6d7f19fac79c0330d51 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c
@@ -2019,6 +2019,31 @@ static int nmk_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (version == PINCTRL_NMK_DB8540)
 		nmk_pinctrl_db8540_init(&npct->soc);
 
+	/*
+	 * Since we depend on the GPIO chips to provide clock and register base
+	 * for the pin control operations, make sure that we have these
+	 * populated before we continue. Follow the phandles to instantiate
+	 * them. The GPIO portion of the actual hardware may be probed before
+	 * or after this point: it shouldn't matter as the APIs are orthogonal.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < NMK_MAX_BANKS; i++) {
+		struct device_node *gpio_np;
+		struct nmk_gpio_chip *nmk_chip;
+
+		gpio_np = of_parse_phandle(np, "nomadik-gpio-chips", i);
+		if (gpio_np) {
+			dev_info(&pdev->dev,
+				 "populate NMK GPIO %d \"%s\"\n",
+				 i, gpio_np->name);
+			nmk_chip = nmk_gpio_populate_chip(gpio_np, pdev);
+			if (IS_ERR(nmk_chip))
+				dev_err(&pdev->dev,
+					"could not populate nmk chip struct "
+					"- continue anyway\n");
+			of_node_put(gpio_np);
+		}
+	}
+
 	prcm_np = of_parse_phandle(np, "prcm", 0);
 	if (prcm_np)
 		npct->prcm_base = of_iomap(prcm_np, 0);