linedisp_display(9)

💖 linedisp_display(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for linedisp_display(9) — we folded the manual name in all cute instead of doing that dry header-line thing. let’s go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

linedisp_display — set the message to be displayed 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int linedisp_display (struct linedisp *linedisp , const char *msg ,
       ssize_t count );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• linedisp — pointer to the private data structure 🫶
• msg — the message to display 💌
• count — length of msg, or -1 🧮

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so linedisp_display() displays a new message msg on the display. ✨ msg can be longer than the number of characters the display can display, and in that case it will begin scrolling across the display. 🌀 no cap, it’s giving marquee energy.

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success 🎉
• -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c struct linedisp_attachment(9)
• linedisp_scroll(9)
• message_show(9)
• message_store(9)
• linedisp_attach(9)
• linedisp_detach(9)
• linedisp_register(9)
• linedisp_unregister(9)

okay that’s the page, bestie! signing off from ./drivers/auxdisplay, dated October 2026, all about linedisp_display(9) — mwah 💋✨