pinctrl_force_default(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

pinctrl_force_default — bestie, this one turns a given controller device into its default state. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int pinctrl_force_default (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev );

Periodt. It returns an int, it takes one pointer, we love a simple signature. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pctldev — the pin controller device. Like, the actual device, not a vibe, not a name, the struct. Hand it over and it gets forced into default state. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Okay so this page is mutuals with basically the entire pinctrl friend group, no cap. They all live in the kernel file ./drivers/pinctrl/core.c:

• pinctrl_provide_dummies(9)
• get_pinctrl_dev_from_devname(9)
• pin_get_from_name(9)
• pin_get_name(9)
• gpio_to_pin(9)
• pinctrl_match_gpio_range(9)
• pinctrl_ready_for_gpio_range(9)
• pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range(9)
• pinctrl_add_gpio_range(9)
• pinctrl_find_gpio_range_from_pin(9)
• pinctrl_remove_gpio_range(9)
• pinctrl_generic_get_group_count(9)
• pinctrl_generic_get_group_name(9)
• pinctrl_generic_get_group_pins(9)
• pinctrl_generic_get_group(9)
• pinctrl_generic_add_group(9)
• pinctrl_generic_remove_group(9)
• pinctrl_generic_free_groups(9)
• pinctrl_get_group_selector(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_request(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_free(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_direction_input(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_direction_output(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_set_config(9)
• pinctrl_gpio_get_config(9)
• pinctrl_get(9)
• pinctrl_release(9)
• pinctrl_put(9)
• pinctrl_lookup_state(9)
• pinctrl_commit_state(9)
• pinctrl_select_state(9)
• devm_pinctrl_get(9)
• devm_pinctrl_put(9)
• pinctrl_register_mappings(9)
• pinctrl_unregister_mappings(9)
• devm_pinctrl_register_mappings(9)
• pinctrl_force_sleep(9)
• pinctrl_init_done(9)
• pinctrl_select_default_state(9)
• pinctrl_pm_select_default_state(9)
• pinctrl_pm_select_init_state(9)
• pinctrl_pm_select_sleep_state(9)
• pinctrl_pm_select_idle_state(9)
• pinctrl_init_controller(9)
• pinctrl_register(9)
• pinctrl_register_and_init(9)
• pinctrl_unregister(9)
• devm_pinctrl_register(9)
• devm_pinctrl_register_and_init(9)

Like I said. Whole friend group. Go say hi. 😭💖

And that's the page, babe — it's from the Kernel API Manual, source dir ./drivers/pinctrl, dated October 2026, and the page itself is pinctrl_force_default(9). Slay, go force some defaults. 🌈✨