CONFIG_PANEL_BOOT_MESSAGE: New initialization message

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_PANEL_BOOT_MESSAGE has multiple definitions:

New initialization message found in drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_PANEL_BOOT_MESSAGE:

• prompt: New initialization message
• type: string
• depends on: CONFIG_PANEL_CHANGE_MESSAGE ="y"
• defined in drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.12–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12

Help text

This allows you to replace the boot message indicating the kernel version and the driver version with a custom message. This is useful on appliances where a simple 'Starting system' message can be enough to stop a customer from worrying.

An empty message will only clear the display at driver init time. Any other printf()-formatted message is valid with newline and escape codes.

New initialization message found in drivers/misc/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_PANEL_BOOT_MESSAGE:

• prompt: New initialization message
• type: string
• depends on: CONFIG_PANEL_CHANGE_MESSAGE ="y"
• defined in drivers/misc/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.6–4.11

Help text

This allows you to replace the boot message indicating the kernel version and the driver version with a custom message. This is useful on appliances where a simple 'Starting system' message can be enough to stop a customer from worrying.

An empty message will only clear the display at driver init time. Any other printf()-formatted message is valid with newline and escape codes.

New initialization message found in drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_PANEL_BOOT_MESSAGE:

• prompt: New initialization message
• type: string
• depends on: CONFIG_PANEL && CONFIG_PANEL_CHANGE_MESSAGE ="y"
• defined in drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.29–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.5

Help text

This allows you to replace the boot message indicating the kernel version and the driver version with a custom message. This is useful on appliances where a simple 'Starting system' message can be enough to stop a customer from worrying.

An empty message will only clear the display at driver init time. Any other printf()-formatted message is valid with newline and escape codes.

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