From: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] doc: bootchooser: add retry handling to algorithm description
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:53:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215125348.12851-9-ejo@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190215125348.12851-1-ejo@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
index ad809751dd..1680ea78ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ list of space-separated flags. Possible values are:
counters of all enabled targets are zero, the ``remaining_attempts``
counters of all enabled targets are reset to their defaults.
+If ``global.bootchooser.retry`` is enabled (set to ``1``), the bootchooser
+algorithm will iterate through all valid boot targets (and decrease their
+counters) until one succeeds or none is left.
+If it is disabled only one attempt will be made for each bootchooser call.
+
Marking a Boot as Successful
############################
--
2.20.1
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-15 12:53 [PATCH 0/8] Bootchooser Documentation Update Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] doc: bootchooser: fix typos etc Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] doc: bootchooser: explicitly note configuration vs. storage backend Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] doc: bootchooser: be more explicit what bootchooser.state_prefix is for Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about attempts reset on successful boot Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] doc: bootchooser: note how to actually start the bootchooser Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about when the bootchooser terminates Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] doc: bootchooser: add details about bootchooser.reset_attempts handling Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` Enrico Jorns [this message]
2019-02-18 8:30 ` [PATCH 0/8] Bootchooser Documentation Update Sascha Hauer
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