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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-03-03 19:08:26 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-03-03 19:11:59 +0100
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man: document that .link/.network/.netdev files have the usual ini syntax
Fixes #1266.
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@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para>Network link configuration is performed by the
- <command>net_setup_link</command> udev builtin.</para>
+ <para>A plain ini-style text file that encodes configuration for matching network devices, used by
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and in
+ particular its <command>net_setup_link</command> builtin. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.syntax</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for a
+ general description of the syntax.</para>
<para>The link files are read from the files located in the system
network directory <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/network</filename>,