[PATCH] Documentation: spell out what TLV actually means

[Jan Lübbe]

On Fri, 2026-02-13 at 08:49 +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> "barebox TLV" is used in many places, but the acronym is not explained
> anywhere. Spell out what it actually stands for.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/user/barebox-tlv.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user/barebox-tlv.rst b/Documentation/user/barebox-tlv.rst
> index 1c1abfb43a..0887194801 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user/barebox-tlv.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/user/barebox-tlv.rst
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
>  barebox TLV - Non-Volatile Factory Data Storage
>  ===============================================
>  
> -barebox TLV is a system to store and retrieve a device's (read-only)
> -meta-data from non-volatile memory.
> +barebox TLV ("Tag Linked Value" format) is a system to store and
                     ^Length

Jan

> +retrieve a device's (read-only) meta-data from non-volatile memory.
>  It is intended to handle information that are usually only set in
>  the factory - like serial number, MAC-addresses, analog calibration
>  data, etc.

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