From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 07:26:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: add old entry about Type=ether
X-Git-Tag: v247.8~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f96f2a741e6f123b9f0a8dffed72eeea45dda78;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: add old entry about Type=ether

Apparently it's an important feature for some folks:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/\~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkdMACMatchesWidely.
I think we considered this more of a bugfix, but it's somewhere on the border.
Let's add this it's easier to discover.

(cherry picked from commit 88b2a95064675c5f86648053cf124265f5289095)
(cherry picked from commit 3cb75aecc0a5facf2e057ea56d2334ebd3ee2761)
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 49e19cec22d..18a37646476 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1454,6 +1454,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 245:
           for the [RoutingPolicyRule] section of .network files to configure
           source routing based on UID ranges and prefix length, respectively.
 
+        * The Type= match property of .link files has been generalized to
+          always match the device type shown by 'networkctl status', even for
+          devices where udev does not set DEVTYPE=. This allows e.g. Type=ether
+          to be used.
+
         * sd-bus gained a new API call sd_bus_message_sensitive() that marks a
           D-Bus message object as "sensitive". Those objects are erased from
           memory when they are freed. This concept is intended to be used for