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[stable-2.8] Clarify documentation an reboot delay paramaters (#55934) (cherry picked from commit 0e8a6e08ce)

Co-authored-by: Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>

Sam Doran authored on 2019/05/01 01:28:34
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@@ -23,21 +23,21 @@ version_added: "2.7"
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 options:
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   pre_reboot_delay:
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     description:
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-      - Seconds for shutdown to wait before requesting reboot.
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+      - Seconds to wait before reboot. Passed as a parameter to the reboot command.
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       - On Linux, macOS and OpenBSD, this is converted to minutes and rounded down. If less than 60, it will be set to 0.
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       - On Solaris and FreeBSD, this will be seconds.
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     type: int
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     default: 0
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   post_reboot_delay:
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     description:
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-      - Seconds to wait after the reboot was successful and the connection was re-established.
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+      - Seconds to wait after the reboot command was successful before attempting to validate the system rebooted successfully.
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       - This is useful if you want wait for something to settle despite your connection already working.
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     type: int
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     default: 0
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   reboot_timeout:
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     description:
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       - Maximum seconds to wait for machine to reboot and respond to a test command.
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-      - This timeout is evaluated separately for both network connection and test command success so the
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+      - This timeout is evaluated separately for both reboot verification and test command success so the
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         maximum execution time for the module is twice this amount.
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     type: int
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     default: 600
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@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ version_added: '2.1'
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 options:
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   pre_reboot_delay:
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     description:
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-    - Seconds for shutdown to wait before requesting reboot.
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+    - Seconds to wait before reboot. Passed as a parameter to the reboot command.
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     type: int
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     default: 2
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     aliases: [ pre_reboot_delay_sec ]
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   post_reboot_delay:
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     description:
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-    - Seconds to wait after the reboot was successful and the connection was re-established.
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+    - Seconds to wait after the reboot command was successful before attempting to validate the system rebooted successfully.
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     - This is useful if you want wait for something to settle despite your connection already working.
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     type: int
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     default: 0
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   reboot_timeout:
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     description:
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     - Maximum seconds to wait for machine to re-appear on the network and respond to a test command.
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-    - This timeout is evaluated separately for both network appearance and test command success (so maximum clock time is actually twice this value).
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+    - This timeout is evaluated separately for both reboot verification and test command success so maximum clock time is actually twice this value.
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     type: int
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     default: 600
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     aliases: [ reboot_timeout_sec ]