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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-01-27 18:29:33 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-01-27 18:29:33 +0100
commite611755d98ac6b213f39426359c3a94defc6a029 (patch)
tree83febd2426441b53a129b5db3f284efc5b571d5a /man/systemd.link.xml
parent2bc39683c0cada86c9dc39e5f3d0ea475cf12e57 (diff)
man: mention that 99-default.link is shipped by default, and users hence need to install a lexically earlier .link file for it to be honoured
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diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml
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@@ -71,11 +71,17 @@
<filename>/usr/lib</filename>, pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>,
disables the link file entirely.</para>
- <para>The link file contains a <literal>[Match]</literal> section, which
- determines if a given link file may be applied to a given device; and a
- <literal>[Link]</literal> section specifying how the device should be
- configured. The first (in lexical order) of the link files that matches
- a given device is applied.</para>
+ <para>The link file contains a
+ <literal>[Match]</literal> section, which determines
+ if a given link file may be applied to a given device,
+ as well as a <literal>[Link]</literal> section specifying how
+ the device should be configured. The first (in lexical
+ order) of the link files that matches a given device
+ is applied. Note that a default file
+ <filename>99-default.link</filename> is shipped by the
+ system, any user-supplied <filename>.link</filename>
+ should hence have a lexically earlier name to be
+ considered at all.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>