diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index bc5ba52865ec..535eb1b509c1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -599,6 +599,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
 	int base = gc->base;
 	unsigned int i;
 	int ret = 0;
+	u32 ngpios;
 
 	/*
 	 * First: allocate and populate the internal stat container, and
@@ -646,6 +647,26 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
 		goto err_free_dev_name;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Try the device properties if the driver didn't supply the number
+	 * of GPIO lines.
+	 */
+	if (gc->ngpio == 0) {
+		ret = device_property_read_u32(&gdev->dev, "ngpios", &ngpios);
+		if (ret == -ENODATA)
+			/*
+			 * -ENODATA means that there is no property found and
+			 * we want to issue the error message to the user.
+			 * Besides that, we want to return different error code
+			 * to state that supplied value is not valid.
+			 */
+			ngpios = 0;
+		else if (ret)
+			goto err_free_descs;
+
+		gc->ngpio = ngpios;
+	}
+
 	if (gc->ngpio == 0) {
 		chip_err(gc, "tried to insert a GPIO chip with zero lines\n");
 		ret = -EINVAL;