Merge pull request #13076 from keszybz/pr/13062

[thirdparty/systemd.git] / man / systemd-udevd.service.xml

diff --git a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
index ee18dae6ebb36c57ae3b542353453b429cbdce92..c267bb2b114b3da1f5154fbb06bf3bf46b286693 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
@@ -1,27 +1,7 @@
-<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
-
-<!--
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
-
-  This file is part of systemd.
-
-  Copyright 2010-2013 Kay Sievers
-
-  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
-  (at your option) any later version.
-
-  systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-  along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
--->
+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->
 
 <refentry id="systemd-udevd.service"
           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
@@ -29,14 +9,6 @@
   <refentryinfo>
     <title>systemd-udevd.service</title>
     <productname>systemd</productname>
-    <authorgroup>
-      <author>
-        <contrib>Developer</contrib>
-        <firstname>Kay</firstname>
-        <surname>Sievers</surname>
-        <email>kay@vrfy.org</email>
-      </author>
-    </authorgroup>
   </refentryinfo>
 
   <refmeta>
@@ -195,10 +167,26 @@
           when possible. It is enabled by default; specifying 0 disables it.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>net.naming-scheme=</varname></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Network interfaces are renamed to give them predictable names when possible (unless
+          <varname>net.ifnames=0</varname> is specified, see above). With this kernel command line option it
+          is possible to pick a specific version of this algorithm and override the default chosen at
+          compilation time. Expects one of the naming scheme identifiers listed in
+          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.net-naming-scheme</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+          or <literal>latest</literal> to select the latest scheme known (to this particular version of
+          <filename>systemd-udevd.service</filename>).</para>
+
+          <para>Note that selecting a specific scheme is not sufficient to fully stabilize interface naming:
+          the naming is generally derived from driver attributes exposed by the kernel. As the kernel is
+          updated, previously missing attributes <filename>systemd-udevd.service</filename> is checking might
+          appear, which affects older name derivation algorithms, too.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
-    <!-- when adding entries here, consider also adding them
-         in kernel-command-line.xml -->
- </refsect1>
+    <!-- when adding entries here, consider also adding them in kernel-command-line.xml -->
+  </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>
     <title>See Also</title>