From: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] doc: bootchooser: add details about bootchooser.reset_attempts handling
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:53:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215125348.12851-8-ejo@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190215125348.12851-1-ejo@pengutronix.de>
For understanding and correctly using the algorith it is useful to know
when the values are evaluated.
Signed-off-by: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
index 00ce896e37..ad809751dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
@@ -88,11 +88,13 @@ controlled by the ``global.bootchooser.reset_attempts`` variable. It holds a
list of space-separated flags. Possible values are:
- empty: counters will never be reset
-- ``power-on``: The ``remaining_attempts`` counters of all enabled boot targets are reset
- after a ``power-on`` reset (``$global.system.reset="POR"``). This means after a power
- cycle all boot targets will be tried again for the configured number of retries.
-- ``all-zero``: The ``remaining_attempts`` counters of all enabled boot targets are
- reset when none of them has any ``remaining_attempts`` left.
+- ``power-on``: When the bootchooser starts and a power-on reset
+ (``$global.system.reset="POR"``) is detected, the ``remaining_attempts``
+ counters of all enabled targets are reset to their defaults.
+ This means after a power cycle all boot targets will be tried again for the configured number of retries.
+- ``all-zero``: When the bootchooser starts and the ``remaining_attempts``
+ counters of all enabled targets are zero, the ``remaining_attempts``
+ counters of all enabled targets are reset to their defaults.
Marking a Boot as Successful
############################
--
2.20.1
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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 ` Enrico Jorns [this message]
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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