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diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
index f500e58f7636..5b71bd905a60 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
@@ -47,14 +47,16 @@ config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
buffers of VGA consoles. Each 64KB will give you approximately
16 80x25 screenfuls of scrollback buffer.
-config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT
- bool "Persistent Scrollback History for each console"
+config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT_ENABLE_BY_DEFAULT
+ bool "Persistent Scrollback History for each console by default"
depends on VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
default n
help
- Say Y here if the scrollback history should persist when switching
- between consoles. Otherwise, the scrollback history will be flushed
- each time the console is switched.
+ Say Y here if the scrollback history should persist by default when
+ switching between consoles. Otherwise, the scrollback history will be
+ flushed each time the console is switched. This feature can also be
+ enabled using the boot command line parameter
+ 'vgacon.scrollback_persistent=1'.
This feature might break your tool of choice to flush the scrollback
buffer, e.g. clear(1) will work fine but Debian's clear_console(1)