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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/udev/udev.xml b/udev/udev.xml
index 20c394c28b..336b203bec 100644
--- a/udev/udev.xml
+++ b/udev/udev.xml
@@ -75,12 +75,13 @@
the custom rules directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename>
and the temporary rules directory <filename>/dev/.udev/rules.d/</filename>.
All rule files are sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless
- in which of these directories they live.</para>
+ in which of these directories they live. Files in
+ <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence over files with
+ the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This can be
+ used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
- <para>Rule files are required to have a unique name, duplicate file names
- are ignored. Files in <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence
- over files with the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This
- can be used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
+ <para>Rule files must end in <filename>.rules</filename>, other extensions
+ are ignored.</para>
<para>Every line in the rules file contains at least one key value pair.
There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.