From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:56:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: split out a paragraph and shorten the text about sd-network-generator
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man: split out a paragraph and shorten the text about sd-network-generator

The ordering of the service wrt. to udevd is enforced by unit configuration,
so no need to tell the user about this. From users' POV, the only thing that
counts is that the unit is enabled and then the right thing happens.
---

diff --git a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
index 1bc86469be9..3107fb7ce9e 100644
--- a/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
@@ -234,13 +234,14 @@
           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.link</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
           for more details. When the MAC address is specified, the policies are applied to the
           interface which has the address. When no MAC address is specified, the policies are applied
-          to all interfaces. This kernel command line argument can be specified multiple times. This
-          argument is not directly read from <command>systemd-udevd</command>, but read and converted
-          to a .link file by <command>systemd-network-generator</command>. So, to make this argument
-          take effect, <filename>systemd-network-generator.service</filename> must be enabled and
-          started before starting <filename>systemd-udevd.service</filename>. See
-          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-network-generator.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-          for more details about the service.</para>
+          to all interfaces. This kernel command line argument can be specified multiple times.</para>
+
+          <para>This argument is not directly read by <command>systemd-udevd</command>, but is instead
+          converted to a .link file by
+          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-network-generator.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+          For this argument to take effect, <filename>systemd-network-generator.service</filename> must be
+          enabled.</para>
+
           <para>Example:
           <programlisting>net.ifname-policy=keep,kernel,path,slot,onboard,01:23:45:67:89:ab
 net.ifname-policy=keep,kernel,path,slot,onboard,mac</programlisting>