From a22e1850c36e52cb9d593b99be59b6ba7639d80a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:44:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: clarify that only the first .network file with a
 matching [Match] matters

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/031294.html
---
 man/systemd.network.xml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index c7e4db4e3ca..4be9d13011c 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@
       to a given device; and a <literal>[Network]</literal> section
       specifying how the device should be configured. The first (in
       lexical order) of the network files that matches a given device
-      is applied.</para>
+      is applied, all later files are ignored, even if they match as
+      well.</para>
 
       <para>A network file is said to match a device if each of the
       entries in the <literal>[Match]</literal> section matches, or if