From 1f3f40f0ff2a57428df1466689115470ca99ea5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:59:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] networkd: call networkd a "network management" rather "network configuration" tool This has irked me for a while. For me network configuration is the stuff we store on disk in configuration file. And networkd then *applies* the configuration. But the units so far claimed that networkd was the "configuration" itself. Which I guess might make sense to some, but to me sounds a bit unprecise. Let's clean this up, and call what networkd is doing "Network Management". --- units/systemd-networkd-varlink.socket | 2 +- units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in | 2 +- units/systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service.in | 2 +- units/systemd-networkd.service.in | 2 +- units/systemd-networkd.socket | 2 +- 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/units/systemd-networkd-varlink.socket b/units/systemd-networkd-varlink.socket index 0f2304ff490..7d194fff345 100644 --- a/units/systemd-networkd-varlink.socket +++ b/units/systemd-networkd-varlink.socket @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] -Description=Network Service Varlink Socket +Description=Network Management Varlink Socket Documentation=man:systemd-networkd.service(8) ConditionCapability=CAP_NET_ADMIN DefaultDependencies=no diff --git a/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in b/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in index 7768121f5fc..edda95ae484 100644 --- a/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in +++ b/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.in @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] -Description=Wait for Network to be Configured +Description=Wait for Network to be Online Documentation=man:systemd-networkd-wait-online.service(8) ConditionCapability=CAP_NET_ADMIN DefaultDependencies=no diff --git a/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service.in b/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service.in index 60d173490b3..4f3dbf6f014 100644 --- a/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service.in +++ b/units/systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service.in @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] -Description=Wait for Network Interface %i to be Configured +Description=Wait for Network Interface %i to be Online Documentation=man:systemd-networkd-wait-online.service(8) ConditionCapability=CAP_NET_ADMIN DefaultDependencies=no diff --git a/units/systemd-networkd.service.in b/units/systemd-networkd.service.in index c7bcf73a27d..44103f7daa4 100644 --- a/units/systemd-networkd.service.in +++ b/units/systemd-networkd.service.in @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] -Description=Network Configuration +Description=Network Management Documentation=man:systemd-networkd.service(8) Documentation=man:org.freedesktop.network1(5) ConditionCapability=CAP_NET_ADMIN diff --git a/units/systemd-networkd.socket b/units/systemd-networkd.socket index 2d8d1c3b910..f594d77940c 100644 --- a/units/systemd-networkd.socket +++ b/units/systemd-networkd.socket @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] -Description=Network Service Netlink Socket +Description=Network Management Netlink Socket Documentation=man:systemd-networkd.service(8) man:rtnetlink(7) ConditionCapability=CAP_NET_ADMIN DefaultDependencies=no -- 2.47.3