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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-07-07 09:26:12 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-07-12 13:30:55 +0200
commit3cb75aecc0a5facf2e057ea56d2334ebd3ee2761 (patch)
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parent50fe0594d22ec3fbc62276e4367672f860ac9abe (diff)
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NEWS: add old entry about Type=ether
Apparently it's an important feature for some folks: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/\~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkdMACMatchesWidely. I think we considered this more of a bugfix, but it's somewhere on the border. Let's add this it's easier to discover. (cherry picked from commit 88b2a95064675c5f86648053cf124265f5289095)
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for the [RoutingPolicyRule] section of .network files to configure
source routing based on UID ranges and prefix length, respectively.
+ * The Type= match property of .link files has been generalized to
+ always match the device type shown by 'networkctl status', even for
+ devices where udev does not set DEVTYPE=. This allows e.g. Type=ether
+ to be used.
+
* sd-bus gained a new API call sd_bus_message_sensitive() that marks a
D-Bus message object as "sensitive". Those objects are erased from
memory when they are freed. This concept is intended to be used for