From: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about when the bootchooser terminates
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215125348.12851-7-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 | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
index 0c5e56407a..00ce896e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ booting a fallback in case of a permanent failure.
To indicate a successful boot, one must explicitly reset the remaining
attempts counter. See `Marking a Boot as Successful`_.
+The bootchooser algorithm aborts when all enabled targets (priority > 0) have
+no remaining attempts left.
+
To prevent ending up in an unbootable system after a number of failed boot
attempts, there is a also a built-in mechanism to reset the counters to their defaults,
controlled by the ``global.bootchooser.reset_attempts`` variable. It holds a
--
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 ` Enrico Jorns [this message]
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] doc: bootchooser: add details about bootchooser.reset_attempts handling Enrico Jorns
2019-02-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] doc: bootchooser: add retry handling to algorithm description Enrico Jorns
2019-02-18 8:30 ` [PATCH 0/8] Bootchooser Documentation Update Sascha Hauer
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