[PATCH 2/9] doc: bootchooser: drop confusing description for "remaining_attempts"
Bastian Krause
bst at pengutronix.de
Mon Mar 31 05:49:25 PDT 2025
"Every attempt counter reaches zero" is not how redundant booting is
meant to be used. Usually userspace or the next barebox boot increments
the counter again. This sentence is at least confusing, so drop it
altogether.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Krause <bst at pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
index e318b245c14..fc36f8fb1ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ means the boot target is disabled.
When booting, *bootchooser* starts the boot target with the highest ``priority`` that
has a non-zero ``remaining_attempts`` counter. With every start of a boot target the
-``remaining_attempts`` counter of this boot target is decremented by one. This means
-every boot target's ``remaining_attempts`` counter reaches zero sooner or later and
-the boot target won't be booted anymore.
+``remaining_attempts`` counter of this boot target is decremented by one.
This behavior assures that one can retry booting a target a limited number of
times to handle temporary issues (such as power outage) and optionally allows
booting a fallback in case of a permanent failure.
--
2.39.5
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