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diff --git a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
index 2b9a29adcd..35e254384e 100644
--- a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
@@ -157,6 +157,23 @@
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1><title>Configuration file</title>
+ <para>udev expects its main configuration file at <filename>/etc/udev/udev.conf</filename>.
+ It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values. All
+ empty lines or lines beginning with '#' are ignored. The following variables can be
+ set:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>udev_log</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The logging priority. Valid values are the numerical syslog priorities
+ or their textual representations: <option>err</option>, <option>info</option>
+ and <option>debug</option>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para><citerefentry>
diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml
index 34b1e6fd60..eab525f0f3 100644
--- a/man/udev.xml
+++ b/man/udev.xml
@@ -54,28 +54,7 @@
sources is provided by the library libudev.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1><title>Configuration</title>
- <para>udev configuration files are placed in <filename>/etc/udev</filename>
- and <filename>/usr/lib/udev</filename>. All empty lines or lines beginning with
- '#' are ignored.</para>
-
- <refsect2><title>Configuration file</title>
- <para>udev expects its main configuration file at <filename>/etc/udev/udev.conf</filename>.
- It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values.
- The following variables can be set:</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>udev_log</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The logging priority. Valid values are the numerical syslog priorities
- or their textual representations: <option>err</option>, <option>info</option>
- and <option>debug</option>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect2>
-
- <refsect2><title>Rules files</title>
+ <refsect1><title>Rules files</title>
<para>The udev rules are read from the files located in the
system rules directory <filename>/usr/lib/udev/rules.d</filename>,
the volatile runtime directory <filename>/run/udev/rules.d</filename>
@@ -94,9 +73,10 @@
extensions are ignored.</para>
<para>Every line in the rules file contains at least one key-value pair.
+ Except for empty lines or lines beginning with '#', which are ignored.
There are two kinds of keys: match and assignment.
- If all match keys are matching against its value, the rule gets applied and the
- assignment keys get the specified value assigned.</para>
+ If all match keys match against their values, the rule gets applied and the
+ assignment keys get the specified values assigned.</para>
<para>A matching rule may rename a network interface, add symlinks
pointing to the device node, or run a specified program as part of
@@ -714,7 +694,6 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- </refsect2>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>