What: /sys/.../message Date: October 2021 KernelVersion: 5.16 Description: Controls the text message displayed on character line displays. Reading returns the current message with a trailing newline. Writing updates the displayed message. Messages longer than the display width will automatically scroll. Trailing newlines in input are automatically trimmed. Writing an empty string clears the display. Example: echo "Hello World" > message cat message # Returns "Hello World\n" What: /sys/.../num_chars Date: November 2025 KernelVersion: 6.18 Contact: Jean-François Lessard Description: Read-only attribute showing the character width capacity of the line display device. Messages longer than this will scroll. Example: cat num_chars # Returns "16\n" for 16-char display What: /sys/.../scroll_step_ms Date: October 2021 KernelVersion: 5.16 Description: Controls the scrolling speed for messages longer than the display width, specified in milliseconds per scroll step. Setting to 0 disables scrolling. Default is 500ms. Example: echo "250" > scroll_step_ms # 4Hz scrolling cat scroll_step_ms # Returns "250\n" What: /sys/.../map_seg7 Date: January 2024 KernelVersion: 6.9 Description: Read/write binary blob representing the ASCII-to-7-segment display conversion table used by the linedisp driver, as defined by struct seg7_conversion_map in . Only visible on displays with 7-segment capability. This attribute is not human-readable. Writes must match the struct size exactly, else -EINVAL is returned; reads return the entire mapping as a binary blob. This interface and its implementation match existing conventions used in segment-mapped display drivers since 2005. ABI note: This style of binary sysfs attribute *is an exception* to current "one value per file, text only" sysfs rules, for historical compatibility and driver uniformity. New drivers are discouraged from introducing additional binary sysfs ABIs. Reference interface guidance: - include/uapi/linux/map_to_7segment.h What: /sys/.../map_seg14 Date: January 2024 KernelVersion: 6.9 Description: Read/write binary blob representing the ASCII-to-14-segment display conversion table used by the linedisp driver, as defined by struct seg14_conversion_map in . Only visible on displays with 14-segment capability. This attribute is not human-readable. Writes must match the struct size exactly, else -EINVAL is returned; reads return the entire mapping as a binary blob. This interface and its implementation match existing conventions used by segment-mapped display drivers since 2005. ABI note: This style of binary sysfs attribute *is an exception* to current "one value per file, text only" sysfs rules, for historical compatibility and driver uniformity. New drivers are discouraged from introducing additional binary sysfs ABIs. Reference interface guidance: - include/uapi/linux/map_to_14segment.h