<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>