hostnamed: make chassis type configurable via /etc/machine-info

[elogind.git] / man / machine-info.xml

diff --git a/man/machine-info.xml b/man/machine-info.xml
index b310d71334195302b54b0ca05f631dbecabe380c..1c3a21c6434a21c47f84ec3b7c6f60321c9c7117 100644 (file)
--- a/man/machine-info.xml
+++ b/man/machine-info.xml
@@ -128,6 +128,34 @@
                                 similar icon name.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>CHASSIS=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>The chassis
+                                type. Currently, the following chassis
+                                types are defined:
+                                <literal>desktop</literal>,
+                                <literal>laptop</literal>,
+                                <literal>server</literal>,
+                                <literal>tablet</literal>,
+                                <literal>handset</literal>, as well as
+                                the special chassis types
+                                <literal>vm</literal> and
+                                <literal>container</literal> for
+                                virtualized systems that lack an
+                                immediate physical chassis. Note that
+                                many systems allow detection of the
+                                chassis type automatically (based on
+                                firmware information or
+                                suchlike). This setting (if set) shall
+                                take precedence over automatically
+                                detected information and is useful to
+                                override misdetected configuration or
+                                to manually configure the chassis type
+                                where automatic detection is not
+                                available.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
@@ -135,8 +163,9 @@
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Example</title>
 
-                <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Computer"
-ICON_NAME=computer-laptop</programlisting>
+                <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet"
+ICON_NAME=computer-tablet
+CHASSIS=tablet</programlisting>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>