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authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2020-11-20 22:43:45 +0900
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2020-11-20 23:07:21 +0900
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man: to make MACAddress= take effect, MACAddressPolicy= must be "none"
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diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml
index 504977c862..24271ea65a 100644
--- a/man/systemd.link.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.link.xml
@@ -273,18 +273,21 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>none</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Keeps the MAC address assigned by the kernel.</para>
+ <para>Keeps the MAC address assigned by the kernel. Or use the MAC address specified in
+ <varname>MACAddress=</varname>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
+
+ <para>An empty string assignment is equivalent to setting <literal>none</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The MAC address to use, if no
- <varname>MACAddressPolicy=</varname>
- is specified.</para>
+ <para>The interface MAC address to use. For this setting to take effect,
+ <varname>MACAddressPolicy=</varname> must either be unset, empty, or <literal>none</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>