man: clarify different uses of MACAddress
authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Sun, 8 May 2016 19:58:34 +0000 (15:58 -0400)
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Tue, 17 May 2016 20:55:20 +0000 (16:55 -0400)
Improve the networkd documentation to clarify that Match.MACAddress is for
selection, but Link.MACAddress describes an action to be taken.

man/systemd.network.xml

index 70e3804..35800be 100644 (file)
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>The hardware address.</para>
+            <para>The hardware address of the interface (use full colon-delimited hexadecimal, e.g.,
+            01:23:45:67:89:ab).</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>The hardware address.</para>
+          <para>The hardware address to set for the device.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>