[PATCH] Documentation: state: add a little note about modifying a state variable in the frontend

Matthias Fend Matthias.Fend at wolfvision.net
Thu Nov 5 15:16:04 EST 2020


Signed-off-by: Matthias Fend <matthias.fend at wolfvision.net>
---
 Documentation/user/state.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/user/state.rst b/Documentation/user/state.rst
index 78ce24f..d9a8e76 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/state.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/state.rst
@@ -689,4 +689,5 @@ be accessed like normal shell variables. The ``state`` command is used
 to save/restore a *state* variable set to the backend device.
 
 After initializing the variable can be accessed with ``$state.foo``.
+To modify the value of a state variable use ``nv dev.state.foo=bar``.
 ``state -s`` stores the *state* to the backend device.
-- 
2.9.3


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