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author | Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de> | 2019-02-15 13:53:46 +0100 |
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committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2019-02-18 14:26:27 +0100 |
commit | 2b21c973876587dfa012a2ed892c6786cecec09a (patch) | |
tree | 2f74346bb9698414ec5bcf50546d4adb0352e6b1 /Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | |
parent | 463610e5b831812d9c0e0557aa23525cfdd81ef8 (diff) | |
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doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about when the bootchooser terminates
Signed-off-by: Enrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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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 |