Merge pull request #4999 from nicoddemus/cmdline_parse-early

Docs: modules implementing pytest_cmdline_parse can be early-loaded

Author: nicoddemus

src/_pytest/hookspec.py

@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ def pytest_cmdline_parse(pluginmanager, args):
     Stops at first non-None result, see :ref:`firstresult`
 
     .. note::
-        This hook will not be called for ``conftest.py`` files, only for setuptools plugins.
+        This hook will not be called for ``conftest.py`` files, only for setuptools plugins or
+        modules which implement this hook and are early-loaded with the ``-p`` flag.
 
     :param _pytest.config.PytestPluginManager pluginmanager: pytest plugin manager
     :param list[str] args: list of arguments passed on the command line