[PATCH 8/8] doc: bootchooser: add retry handling to algorithm description

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Signed-off-by: Enrico Jorns <ejo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
index ad809751dd..1680ea78ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ list of space-separated flags. Possible values are:
   counters of all enabled targets are zero, the ``remaining_attempts``
   counters of all enabled targets are reset to their defaults.
 
+If ``global.bootchooser.retry`` is enabled (set to ``1``), the bootchooser
+algorithm will iterate through all valid boot targets (and decrease their
+counters) until one succeeds or none is left.
+If it is disabled only one attempt will be made for each bootchooser call.
+
 Marking a Boot as Successful
 ############################
 
-- 
2.20.1


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