STRUCT PINCTRL_STATE(9)

struct pinctrl_state(9) — a pinctrl state for a device 💅

Hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is one of those tiny little structs that holds the entire vibe of a pinctrl state together. It's not doing the loudest job in the world, but best believe it's doing it immaculately 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

struct pinctrl_state — literally just a pinctrl state for a device, no cap 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so the whole thing looks like this, and yes you can copy it exactly, I checked 🫶

struct pinctrl_state {
    struct list_head node;
    const char *name;
    struct list_head settings;
};

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💅 Members 💅

Three little members, three little icons, let's go 👑

• node — this one is the list node for the states field of struct pinctrl. It's the little link that keeps this state hooked up to its friends 🔗
• name — the name of this state. Main character label energy, fr fr 🏷️
• settings — a list of settings for this state. All the little configs living their best life in here 🍓

Not me emotionally attached to a three-field struct 😭 she's small but she's everything.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

If you're gonna fall down the pinctrl rabbit hole (and you will, bestie, it's giving 3am wiki binge), start here — kernel file ./drivers/pinctrl/core.h and all her sisters 💜

• struct pinctrl_dev(9)
• struct pinctrl(9)
• struct pinctrl_setting_mux(9)
• struct pinctrl_setting_configs(9)
• struct pinctrl_setting(9)
• struct pin_desc(9)
• struct pinctrl_maps(9)
• struct group_desc(9)

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Alright bestie, that's the whole page — go forth and slay your pinmuxing 🌟

Source is ./drivers/pinctrl, dated October 2026, and this whole beautiful thing is filed under struct pinctrl_state(9) — periodt 💅✨