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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-02-06 08:36:17 +0100
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-02-06 08:37:13 +0100
commit1c25683e0f40c6169676cc44fa1897082597feec (patch)
tree6b8dd67e9ae2c381bf1e421ce668b49c9d774ba6 /man
parentee46e555702715f1adcc3381dac73e76e2d9a048 (diff)
udev: net_setup - clarify reason for failure of persistent mac address policy
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diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml
index 2cfe7107f8..d5c8b9968d 100644
--- a/man/systemd.link.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.link.xml
@@ -216,7 +216,10 @@
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.</para>
+ 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.</para>
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