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authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2021-06-25 21:56:53 +0900
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2021-06-25 14:51:24 +0100
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man: document about NAMING_REPLACE_STRICTLY network interface naming policy
Follow-up for b4d885f0e861b2d1bb5a62311c61a96f5222b026 and 068b0f77289411ef9f92f5d701759e98145a06e4.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml b/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml
index bc1ff7876d..6c14810a3e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml
@@ -381,7 +381,12 @@
<para>Some firmware and hypervisor implementations report unreasonable high numbers for the onboard
index. To prevent the generation of bogus onbard interface names, index numbers greater than 16381
(2^14-1) were ignored. For s390 PCI devices index values up to 65535 (2^16-1) are valid. To account
- for that, the limit is increased to now 65535.</para></listitem>
+ for that, the limit is increased to now 65535.</para>
+
+ <para>The udev rule <varname>NAME=</varname> replaces <literal>:</literal>,
+ <literal>/</literal>, and <literal>%</literal> with an underscore (<literal>_</literal>), and
+ refuses strings which contain only numerics.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>