From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 09:00:34 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: Update the documentation of ifname= cmdline
X-Git-Tag: 019~30
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a2ead9a486594e26c152aa04d935d70981ea79c8;p=thirdparty%2Fdracut.git

Update the documentation of ifname= cmdline

The documentation about ifname= needs to update.

Cc: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
index 5539c00b9..dcdbbce18 100644
--- a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
+++ b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
@@ -288,8 +288,10 @@ auto6::: do IPv6 autoconfiguration
 **ifname=**_<interface>_:_<MAC>_::
     Assign network device name <interface> (ie eth0) to the NIC with MAC <MAC>.
     Note: If you use this option you _must_ specify an ifname= argument for all
-    interfaces used in ip= or fcoe= arguments. This parameter can be specified
-    multiple times.
+    interfaces used in ip= or fcoe= arguments. However, if the interface in
+    ip= or fcoe= is a bridge, bonding or vlan interface, you should specify
+    an ifname= for _each_ of its underlying interfaces. This parameter can be
+    specified multiple times.
 
 **bootdev=**_<interface>_::
     specify network interface to use routing and netroot information from.