pinctrl_select_state(9)

✨ pinctrl_select_state — the glow-up button for your pins 💅

Okay bestie, so this one is a kernel API page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's called pinctrl_select_state. The name literally tells you the vibe: it selects, activates, and programs a pinctrl state onto the hardware. It's giving "pick a fit, put it on, and commit" energy, and honestly? Iconic. 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pinctrl_select_state — select/activate/program a pinctrl state to HW

Yeah. That's the whole flex. It picks a state and makes the hardware actually wear it. No cap. 🔥

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

int pinctrl_select_state (struct pinctrl *p , struct pinctrl_state
*state );

So it takes two things and hands you back an int. Simple. Clean. Main character function energy. ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — the pinctrl handle for the device that requests configuration. Like, this is who's asking for the fit. 🫶
• state — the state handle to select/activate/program. This is the actual fit being put on the pins. 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

First up, the source: it lives in the kernel file ./drivers/pinctrl/core.c. Then the whole friend group shows up — and yes, we're listing every single one, because nobody gets left out of the group chat:

• 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)
• 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_force_default(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, that's the entire friend group and every single one of them ate. 💀🔥

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Lowkey the whole page is short, but every detail is here — nothing skipped, nothing invented. Facts stay facts, even when the fit is 🔥.

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And that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this little icon comes from the ./drivers/pinctrl corner of the kernel, dated October 2026, and it's filed under the pinctrl_select_state(9) manual page. Go forth and select those states, you absolute legend. 👑💜🎀