Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

[andreimpopescu at gmail.com]

On Jo, 27 iun 19, 00:37:01, Justin B Rye wrote:
> 
> Okay, so here's a first rough idea of what the release-notes might
> say.  It would make sense to put the new section after the existing
> one on deprecating old-style interface names.  Something like:
> 
> 
>  _Module configuration for bonding and dummy interfaces_
> 
>  Administrators who are using channel bonding and/or dummy interfaces
>  (for instance to configure a machine as a router), and who have set
>  up module parameters in a file under /etc/modprobe.d, may need to
>  change the name of the local configuration file used, to avoid these
>  parameters being ignored after the upgrade to buster.
> 
>  In buster, udev ships a file /lib/modprobe.d/systemd.conf designed to
>  make it easier to configure such interfaces using systemd-networkd.[?]
>  This contains the lines
> 
> 	options bonding max_bonds=0
> 	options dummy numdummies=0
> 
>  A file in /lib/modprobe.d can be overridden by one with the same name
>  under /etc/modprobe.d, but the names are processed in alphabetical
>  order, so /lib/modprobe.d/systemd.conf follows and overrides (for
>  instance) /etc/modprobe.d/dummy.conf. Make sure that any local
>  configuration file has a name that sorts after "systemd.conf", such
>  as "/etc/modprobe.d/zz-local.conf".

LGTM FWIW :)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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