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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-07-14 12:25:42 +0200
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-07-14 12:25:42 +0200
commit7c1cff4ff79f3121189403a8c1b7c350925b3aaa (patch)
treeb97e4cadc124c47c8fa3daae66d178b3077f0a4c
parentdde2efef37b25f759a8690be7b8be353daa3ff75 (diff)
man: systemd.netdev - make it clear that we do not touch preexisting netdevs
We will happily use bridges/bonds as master devices, but we will not change their settings if they were created by someone else.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.netdev.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index e7eb5a0fe0..0a2cbab093 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@
<para>Virtual Network Device files must have the extension
<filename>.netdev</filename>; other extensions are ignored. Virtual
- network devices are created as soon as networkd is started.</para>
+ network devices are created as soon as networkd is started. If a netdev
+ with the specified name already exists, networkd will use that as-is
+ rather than create its own. Note that the settings of the pre-existing
+ netdev will not be changed by networkd.</para>
<para>The <filename>.netdev</filename> files are read from the files located in the
system network directory <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/network</filename>,