diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index c20cd9027585..1f2f7a9eabbe 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ config GENERIC_ISA_DMA_SUPPORT_BROKEN
 	bool
 	select ZONE_DMA
 
+config GENERIC_GPIO
+	bool
+
 #
 # Endianess selection.  Sufficiently obscure so many users don't know what to
 # answer,so we try hard to limit the available choices.  Also the use of a
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/gpio.h b/include/asm-mips/gpio.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..06e46faf862d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-mips/gpio.h
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_MIPS_GPIO_H
+#define __ASM_MIPS_GPIO_H
+
+#include <gpio.h>
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MIPS_GPIO_H */