From b2bbb187eac07b93f4b40c6f2f72052f07b70ab2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Macku <jamacku@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:12:23 +0100
Subject: doc: Documents ifcfg option LINKSTATUS

Related: #1555001
---
 doc/sysconfig.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/sysconfig.txt b/doc/sysconfig.txt
index b16338a9..07647b6b 100644
--- a/doc/sysconfig.txt
+++ b/doc/sysconfig.txt
@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
     NOZEROCONF=
       Set this to not set a route for dynamic link-local addresses
       over this device.
+    LINKSTATUS=up|down
+     Setting LINKSTATUS to down prevents network-scripts from bringing up interface.
+     This prevents issues with interfaces like Open vSwitch bridges which uses
+     userspace datapaths. If not set defaults to up.
     PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT=yes|no|1|0
       Without this option, or if it is 'no'/'0', and BOOTPROTO=dhcp,
       dhclient is run for the interface in "one-shot" mode; if the 
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