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man: document about NAMING_REPLACE_STRICTLY network interface naming policy
authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:56:53 +0000 (21:56 +0900)
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:51:24 +0000 (14:51 +0100)
Follow-up for b4d885f0e861b2d1bb5a62311c61a96f5222b026 and
068b0f77289411ef9f92f5d701759e98145a06e4.

man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml

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           <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>
 
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