[PhilE]

I'm sorry, but that is never going to be the case, for the reason that the Pi can't know what its pins are being used for. Sometimes you want the pins to be used for one of the built-in interfaces, and sometimes you need them for GPIO. As a result there has to be a way to give it that information. That mechanism used to be a combination of kernel CONFIG symbols and module blacklisting, and now it is device tree, which I think is an improvement because the changes can all be done through config.txt.