From: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: networking: improve net.* variable description
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 14:45:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230206134551.3227602-1-rhi@pengutronix.de> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst | 2 ++
Documentation/user/networking.rst | 10 ++++++----
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
index 60babb513cea..1a95f87e77c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ device where the entry is found on. This makes it possible to use the same rootf
image on different devices without having to specify a different root= option each
time.
+.. _booting_linux_net:
+
Network boot
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/user/networking.rst b/Documentation/user/networking.rst
index 9231ebde56ac..2306cb6a60d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/networking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/networking.rst
@@ -45,15 +45,17 @@ device:
| | | any directly visible subnet. May be set |
| | | automatically by DHCP. |
+------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+
-| global.net.server | hostname or | The default server. If unspecified, may be set |
-| | ipv4 address | by DHCP |
+| global.net.server | hostname or | The default server used by the defaultenv boot |
+| | ipv4 address | scripts for NFS and TFTP; see |
+| | | :ref:`booting_linux_net`. |
+| | | If unspecified, may be set by DHCP. |
+------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+
| global.net.nameserver | ipv4 address | The DNS server used for resolving host names. |
-| | | May be set by DHCP |
+| | | May be set by DHCP. |
+------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+
| global.net.ifup_force_detect | boolean | Set to true if your network device is not |
| | | detected automatically during start (i.e. for |
-| | | USB network adapters) |
+| | | USB network adapters). |
+------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+
The first step for networking is configuring the network device. The network
--
2.30.2
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