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authorEnrico Jorns <ejo@pengutronix.de>2019-02-15 13:53:46 +0100
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2019-02-18 14:26:27 +0100
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doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about when the bootchooser terminates
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@@ -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