From a61b550c5061b924b940f7b180c7c98face837b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:28:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: mention vlan devices inherit the MAC address of the
 physical interface

Follow-up for bc48c51f72d86c6f690724f251892da5657116ac.

Closes #4783.

[zj: tweak grammar a bit.]
---
 man/systemd.netdev.xml | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index e17c1e3fbe..c568a7e7f6 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -287,15 +287,15 @@
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>The MAC address to use for the device. If none is
-            given, one is generated based on the interface name and
-            the
-            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
-            For <literal>tun</literal> or <literal>tap</literal> devices, <varname>MACAddress=</varname> setting
-            is not currently supported in <literal>[NetDev]</literal> section. Please specify it in
-            <literal>[Link]</literal> section of corresponding
+            <para>The MAC address to use for the device. For <literal>tun</literal> or <literal>tap</literal>
+            devices, setting <varname>MACAddress=</varname> in the <literal>[NetDev]</literal> section is not
+            supported. Please specify it in <literal>[Link]</literal> section of the corresponding
             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.network</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-            files.</para>
+            file. If this option is not set, <literal>vlan</literal> devices inherit the MAC address of the
+            physical interface. For other kind of netdevs, if this option is not set, then MAC address is
+            generated based on the interface name and the
+            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+            </para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>