From 1c25683e0f40c6169676cc44fa1897082597feec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:36:17 +0100
Subject: udev: net_setup - clarify reason for failure of persistent mac
 address policy

---
 man/systemd.link.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'man')

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>
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
             <varlistentry>
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