From c8de9b0ec549f1138dcade63a2fdeecaaca16275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Watanabe Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:56:53 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] man: document about NAMING_REPLACE_STRICTLY network interface naming policy Follow-up for b4d885f0e861b2d1bb5a62311c61a96f5222b026 and 068b0f77289411ef9f92f5d701759e98145a06e4. --- man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml b/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml index bc1ff7876d9..6c14810a3e2 100644 --- a/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml +++ b/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.xml @@ -381,7 +381,12 @@ 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. + for that, the limit is increased to now 65535. + + The udev rule NAME= replaces :, + /, and % with an underscore (_), and + refuses strings which contain only numerics. + -- 2.47.3