X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd.link.xml;h=3fac760b016d0c22f2feacc955046b0a0daf317b;hp=2cfe7107f883b5adeeda88b738163ea59d876b2c;hb=00c53f4283ca41878a84b370840a84760b00d46e;hpb=798d3a524ea57aaf40cb53858aaa45ec702f012d diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml index 2cfe7107f..3fac760b0 100644 --- a/man/systemd.link.xml +++ b/man/systemd.link.xml @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ - @@ -103,10 +102,10 @@ OriginalName= - The device name, as exposed by the udev property - "INTERFACE". May contain shell style globs. This can not be - used to match on names that have already been changed from - userspace. Caution is advised when matching on + A whitespace-separated list of shell-style globs matching + the device name, as exposed by the udev property + "INTERFACE". This can not be used to match on names that have + already been changed from userspace. Caution is advised when matching on kernel-assigned names, as they are known to be unstable between reboots. @@ -114,15 +113,16 @@ Path= - The persistent path, as exposed by the - udev property ID_PATH. May - contain shell style globs. + A whitespace-separated list of shell-style globs matching + the persistent path, as exposed by the udev property + ID_PATH. Driver= - The driver currently bound to the device, + A whitespace-separated list of shell-style globs matching + the driver currently bound to the device, as exposed by the udev property DRIVER of its parent device, or if that is not set, the driver as exposed by ethtool -i @@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ Type= - The device type, as exposed by the udev + A whitespace-separated list of shell-style globs matching + the device type, as exposed by the udev property DEVTYPE. @@ -216,7 +217,10 @@ nothing is done. Otherwise, a new MAC address is generated which is guaranteed to be the same on every boot for the given machine and the given device, but - which is otherwise random. + which is otherwise random. This feature depends on ID_NET_NAME_* + properties existing for the link, on hardware where these + properties are not set the generation of a persistent MAC address + will fail.